jayflash
Flashlight Enthusiast
Well, the "young adult", already spayed, shorthair, my wife and daughter got from the animal shelter, last month, turned out to be only five months old, according to our vet. Yeah, and they were only going to the shelter to "look". (imagine a painful roll of the eyes graemlin here)
Anyway, she rules the roost, assists our 100 lb. yellow lab to check out a knock at the door, or other noises, plays with him and everything else and is an otherwise lucky find. She alternately sleeps with everyone and wakes us before the alarm, so nobody oversleeps.
I took your advice and bought one of the recommended claw clippers and trim 1/4 of her front claws. We covered our two pieces of good furniture and I made a scratching post out of a carpet sample guled to a box glued to a 2 X 12 scrap. So far, so good, and no litter box problems or hair balls.
Thanks for advising us against declawing as it's working in our particular case - so far. When we catch her scratching something inappropriate we tell her no and rub her scratching post. She immediately goes to it and claws like crazy.
I was always more appreciative of dogs but the two cats we had have enlightened me to the fun of the feline world.
Thanks again CPFers for your good advice.
Anyway, she rules the roost, assists our 100 lb. yellow lab to check out a knock at the door, or other noises, plays with him and everything else and is an otherwise lucky find. She alternately sleeps with everyone and wakes us before the alarm, so nobody oversleeps.
I took your advice and bought one of the recommended claw clippers and trim 1/4 of her front claws. We covered our two pieces of good furniture and I made a scratching post out of a carpet sample guled to a box glued to a 2 X 12 scrap. So far, so good, and no litter box problems or hair balls.
Thanks for advising us against declawing as it's working in our particular case - so far. When we catch her scratching something inappropriate we tell her no and rub her scratching post. She immediately goes to it and claws like crazy.
I was always more appreciative of dogs but the two cats we had have enlightened me to the fun of the feline world.
Thanks again CPFers for your good advice.