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Which Breed of Cat is the most Mellow?

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Originally posted by: DonVito
Originally posted by: LookingGlass
Indoor cat = declawed. Just don't do it the older they get.
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I would never, ever declaw even an indoor cat. It seems to me like unnecessary cruelty to adopt a pet, then give it painful surgery to make it better suit your lifestyle.
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don't get on your high horse when you probably spay or neuter your cat. if you don't, then do you deprive it of sexual rights? for your convenience? your pleasure?
 
Originally posted by: DonVito
Originally posted by: LookingGlass
Indoor cat = declawed. Just don't do it the older they get.
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I would never, ever declaw even an indoor cat. It seems to me like unnecessary cruelty to adopt a pet, then give it painful surgery to make it better suit your lifestyle.
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That is so true. There's a reason you can only do it when they're young - it's very traumatic and painful for the cat.
 
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

don't get on your high horse when you probably spay or neuter your cat. if you don't, then do you deprive it of sexual rights? for your convenience? your pleasure?
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"Sexual rights"? If people didn't spay and neuter their pets, this country would be overrun with stray cats and dogs. Neutering a cat is a relatively low-stress outpatient procedure (though spaying is admittedly more involved). Declawing is a bloody and painful procedure in which the cat's last knuckles are cut off. You can rationalize it all you want, but IMO you shouldn't have a cat if you can't deal with it having claws.
 
Originally posted by: Shadowknight
Just get a set of cat nail clippers from Wal-mart and trim their claws every 2-4 weeks. They'll do less damage, and when playing with them they won't cut you with their claws.
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Last cat I had was a pretty well behaved cat but every time I tried to cut his nails he went into psycho killing mode!
 
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
Originally posted by: DonVito
Originally posted by: LookingGlass
Indoor cat = declawed. Just don't do it the older they get.
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I would never, ever declaw even an indoor cat. It seems to me like unnecessary cruelty to adopt a pet, then give it painful surgery to make it better suit your lifestyle.
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don't get on your high horse when you probably spay or neuter your cat. if you don't, then do you deprive it of sexual rights? for your convenience? your pleasure?
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It's not a high horse, it's a health issue.
 
Originally posted by: lokiju
Originally posted by: Shadowknight
Just get a set of cat nail clippers from Wal-mart and trim their claws every 2-4 weeks. They'll do less damage, and when playing with them they won't cut you with their claws.
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Last cat I had was a pretty well behaved cat but every time I tried to cut his nails he went into psycho killing mode!
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You just have to be firm with them. I have the biggest cat I've ever seen, but as long as I handle him firmly, he has no problem with claw-clipping.

Mo' Vito

As it happens, he has extra toes, so declawing him would constitute major, awful surgery, and I would never even have considered it anyway.
 
Do NOT declaw. it's like if someone were to cut your fingers off at the knuckle, it does change a cats personality. declawed cats tend to bite alot.
 
Get one from the pound. You probably will be able to tell who's mellow just by sitting there for a few minutes and watching them interact with each other.
 
Originally posted by: DonVito
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

don't get on your high horse when you probably spay or neuter your cat. if you don't, then do you deprive it of sexual rights? for your convenience? your pleasure?
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"Sexual rights"? If people didn't spay and neuter their pets, this country would be overrun with stray cats and dogs. Neutering a cat is a relatively low-stress outpatient procedure (though spaying is admittedly more involved). Declawing is a bloody and painful procedure in which the cat's last knuckles are cut off. You can rationalize it all you want, but IMO you shouldn't have a cat if you can't deal with it having claws.
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you are imposing your needs over the cats. you are defacing their body to meet your own petty needs. you talk of knuckles being painful? talk about your genitals being mutilated. i know you have to take your position to feel better about what you do for your convenience, but realize its just that. you are rationalizing and being a hipocrite. no one is forcing you to own a cat.

Do NOT declaw. it's like if someone were to cut your fingers off at the knuckle, it does change a cats personality. declawed cats tend to bite alot.
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bullpucky. the declawed cats i've delt with didn't bite at all.

as for the health arguement..how abouts i spay or neuter you if its so wonderful. so rationalizing.
 
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

you are imposing your needs over the cats. you are defacing their body to meet your own petty needs. you talk of knuckles being painful? talk about your genitals being mutilated. i know you have to take your position to feel better about what you do for your convenience, but realize its just that. you are rationalizing and being a hipocrite. no one is forcing you to own a cat.

Do NOT declaw. it's like if someone were to cut your fingers off at the knuckle, it does change a cats personality. declawed cats tend to bite alot.
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bullpucky. the declawed cats i've delt with didn't bite at all.

as for the health arguement..how abouts i spay or neuter you if its so wonderful. so rationalizing.
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How is concern over the vast overpopulation of domestic animals "defacing their body to meet [my] own petty needs?" I take it, then, that you're conceding that declawing is defacing the animal to meet the owner's petty needs? If you do that, it seems to me you're the "hipocrite" (sic).
 
Originally posted by: Reck
Do NOT declaw. it's like if someone were to cut your fingers off at the knuckle, it does change a cats personality. declawed cats tend to bite alot.
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Bullcrap they bite a lot, maybe yours does.
 
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
Originally posted by: DonVito
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

don't get on your high horse when you probably spay or neuter your cat. if you don't, then do you deprive it of sexual rights? for your convenience? your pleasure?
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"Sexual rights"? If people didn't spay and neuter their pets, this country would be overrun with stray cats and dogs. Neutering a cat is a relatively low-stress outpatient procedure (though spaying is admittedly more involved). Declawing is a bloody and painful procedure in which the cat's last knuckles are cut off. You can rationalize it all you want, but IMO you shouldn't have a cat if you can't deal with it having claws.
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you are imposing your needs over the cats. you are defacing their body to meet your own petty needs. you talk of knuckles being painful? talk about your genitals being mutilated. i know you have to take your position to feel better about what you do for your convenience, but realize its just that. you are rationalizing and being a hipocrite. no one is forcing you to own a cat.

Do NOT declaw. it's like if someone were to cut your fingers off at the knuckle, it does change a cats personality. declawed cats tend to bite alot.
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bullpucky. the declawed cats i've delt with didn't bite at all.

as for the health arguement..how abouts i spay or neuter you if its so wonderful. so rationalizing.
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Huh after my cat was declawed he underwent a radical personality change. Furthermore Keeping the stray population down has NOTHING to do with my "petty needs".
 
no actually i'm not against either. i'm just pointing out the inconsistency and hipocrisy of those who demonize one while readily accepting the other. if you are consistent with the whole declawing is cruel blah blah blah it needs its natural abilities/convenience is not justified then you cannot justify spaying of neutering. and if you cannot justify spaying or neutering then unless you are willing to spend the time breeding ever more cats to take care of to meet their natural needs you could not ethically justify owning a cat at all. no ones forcing you to enslave an animal and alter it for your own selfish convenience and to further propagate a system that creates such oppressive cruelty after all.
 
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
no actually i'm not against either. i'm just pointing out the inconsistency and hipocrisy of those who demonize one while readily accepting the other. if you are consistent with the whole declawing is cruel blah blah blah it needs its natural abilities/convenience is not justified then you cannot justify spaying of neutering. and if you cannot justify spaying or neutering then unless you are willing to spend the time breeding ever more cats to take care of to meet their natural needs you could not ethically justify owning a cat at all. no ones forcing you to enslave an animal and alter it for your own selfish convenience and to further propagate a system that creates such oppressive cruelty after all.
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You sound like a wacky Peta member. The drivel you spew reeks of the propaganda they spoonfeed to their clueless members.

You want to hear about a system that creates oppressive cruelty? How about letting cats breed out of control and having them put to sleep since there aren't enough potential owners to keep up with the amount of kittens that are born. If cat owners don't control the amount of offspring their cats have, the pound will, after the fact, with a needle.
 
Originally posted by: LookingGlass
Originally posted by: Reck
Do NOT declaw. it's like if someone were to cut your fingers off at the knuckle, it does change a cats personality. declawed cats tend to bite alot.
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Bullcrap they bite a lot, maybe yours does.
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B.S.

The only cats I've ever had bite me (whether playing or not) were clawed cats.

Every de-clawed cat I've ever been around has been completely mellow and wouldn't ever bite.
 
Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
no actually i'm not against either. i'm just pointing out the inconsistency and hipocrisy of those who demonize one while readily accepting the other. if you are consistent with the whole declawing is cruel blah blah blah it needs its natural abilities/convenience is not justified then you cannot justify spaying of neutering. and if you cannot justify spaying or neutering then unless you are willing to spend the time breeding ever more cats to take care of to meet their natural needs you could not ethically justify owning a cat at all. no ones forcing you to enslave an animal and alter it for your own selfish convenience and to further propagate a system that creates such oppressive cruelty after all.
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You sound like a wacky Peta member. The drivel you spew reeks of the propaganda they spoonfeed to their clueless members.

You want to hear about a system that creates oppressive cruelty? How about letting cats breed out of control and having them put to sleep since there aren't enough potential owners to keep up with the amount of kittens that are born. If cat owners don't control the amount of offspring their cats have, the pound will, after the fact, with a needle.
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wow are you ever missing the point. reading comprehension a little poor maybe? i said i'm for both because they are both rational. idiot. i use the peta arguments and logic because thats basically what the anti declawers use to demonize those who choose it. its the people who demonize declawing who are the ones who've bought the peta line hook line and sinker. but oddly enough only for this specific issue. they use the arguements, but don't apply them when inconvenient. i'm just pointing it out and saying get off your frikkin high horse about declawing. get over it, you are owning a cat for your own selfish desires and you are altering it to fit your needs. don't rationalize your own bullsh*t about spaying and then demonize someone elses so readily on declawing. just be self aware.

you realize the whole notion that cats are acceptable as pets at all is what leads to the overpopulation and culling problem that lleads to justification of such things as spaying. kinda circular really.
 
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
wow are you ever missing the point. reading comprehension a little poor maybe? i said i'm for both because they are both rational. idiot. i use the peta arguments and logic because thats basically what the anti declawers use to demonize those who choose it. its the people who demonize declawing who are the ones who've bought the peta line hook line and sinker. but oddly enough only for this specific issue. they use the arguements, but don't apply them when inconvenient. i'm just pointing it out and saying get off your frikkin high horse about declawing. get over it, you are owning a cat for your own selfish desires and you are altering it to fit your needs. don't rationalize your own bullsh*t about spaying and then demonize someone elses so readily on declawing. just be self aware.

you realize the whole notion that cats are acceptable as pets at all is what leads to the overpopulation and culling problem that lleads to justification of such things as spaying. kinda circular really.
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I don't own a cat, never have, and don't even like cats so I'm not involved in this discussion. BTW, your shift key may be broken.
 
Originally posted by: batchusa
don't declaw...if the cat gets into a fight w/o claws....🙁
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don't keep your pets outside.

screw other cats, your pet meets just a squirrel they can be maimed.

OH and BTW roads are nice and warm and good to sleep on, until mr. car comes and flattens my comfy butt. 🙁

 
Originally posted by: 91TTZ
I don't own a cat, never have, and don't even like cats so I'm not involved in this discussion. BTW, your shift key may be broken.
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damn your life is that lame?
 
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