I know this category is for human health and wellness but I hope this thread will be welcomed here. I have encountered alot of people who think that declawing a cat is no big deal. If you are considering this procedure that is outlawed in many countries, please read this:
DECLAWING: What You Need to Know
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55Beach Comber
I don't get it. If it's YOUR house, why do you HAVE to accept an animal you don't want to? Isn't the cat your daughter's responsibility?
beats on hood
I don't get it. If it's YOUR house, why do you HAVE to accept an animal you don't want to? Isn't the cat your daughter's responsibility?Because she's going to college here now, has moved back home, she loves her cat, I love her, and I love animals enough not to put it up for adoption. That cat has already been through enough -- daughter got it at the Atlanta Humane Society.
I'm not gonna lie. I don't like having to do this. I think the dog and the cat will have issues. We'll see how it works. But most parents do too much for their children, and we are gulty of that.
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Beach Fanatic
BR, unless BJ adopted the cat as a kitten, the very reason he/she was at the shelter to begin with may have been ripped & torn furnishings.
I am in the crowd that thinks that you should not bring the cat into your home. If a private adoption with someone you know who loves cats isn't possible, then put it in BJ's room, and take everything you care about out of there.
Cat person here; I like dogs and I love my dogs, but I would really rather have cats (don't tell my dogs that). Unless you have too many of them and they get avoidance issues, cats don't have to be watched every minute and are not as needy as dogs are. They use the litter box, they don't crap in the floor (unless you accidentally shut the door to the room they are in) and you can go away for the weekend and leave them home if you leave clean litter boxes, lots of food and fresh water and something to scratch on.
I do know where you are coming from; everybody adores Labrador Retrievers but ours as a young dog ate our couch, ruined our carpet, shed like a chenille bedspread and semi-permanently threw out my back. She's beautiful and now that she is five, much calmer and sweet as she can be, but never again will I bring a Lab home.
As far as your counters...if it should roam your house, you don't want it on the counters and you aren't there with a spray bottle, put sheets of aluminum foil on your counters. (Yes, this wastes alum foil, which is bad for the environment but you can't save everything all at the same time.) Cats generally HATE the crinkliness of aluminum foil, plus seeing their reflection scares them away.
Good luck
I am in the crowd that thinks that you should not bring the cat into your home. If a private adoption with someone you know who loves cats isn't possible, then put it in BJ's room, and take everything you care about out of there.
Cat person here; I like dogs and I love my dogs, but I would really rather have cats (don't tell my dogs that). Unless you have too many of them and they get avoidance issues, cats don't have to be watched every minute and are not as needy as dogs are. They use the litter box, they don't crap in the floor (unless you accidentally shut the door to the room they are in) and you can go away for the weekend and leave them home if you leave clean litter boxes, lots of food and fresh water and something to scratch on.
I do know where you are coming from; everybody adores Labrador Retrievers but ours as a young dog ate our couch, ruined our carpet, shed like a chenille bedspread and semi-permanently threw out my back. She's beautiful and now that she is five, much calmer and sweet as she can be, but never again will I bring a Lab home.
As far as your counters...if it should roam your house, you don't want it on the counters and you aren't there with a spray bottle, put sheets of aluminum foil on your counters. (Yes, this wastes alum foil, which is bad for the environment but you can't save everything all at the same time.) Cats generally HATE the crinkliness of aluminum foil, plus seeing their reflection scares them away.
Good luck
Beach Fanatic
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Beach Fanatic
Because she's going to college here now, has moved back home, she loves her cat, I love her, and I love animals enough not to put it up for adoption. That cat has already been through enough -- daughter got it at the Atlanta Humane Society.
I'm not gonna lie. I don't like having to do this. I think the dog and the cat will have issues. We'll see how it works. But most parents do too much for their children, and we are gulty of that.
So so true....can't throw stones at that one! Kid's and animals
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