[blparent] Adopting a Pet

[Robert Shelton]

If you're that worried about your furniture, don't adopt a cat, ..., or get
a squirtgun.  All kidding aside, we never had much of a problem with cats
clawing anything except my exercise equipment, and that wasn't a big deal.

-----Original Message-----
From: Veronica Smith [mailto:madison_tewe at spinn.net] 
Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2011 7:35 PM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] blparent Digest, Vol 89, Issue 8

Scratching the kids is not the reason I would declaw, but scratching the
furnature would be.  I know that it is hard to break a cat from scratching
up your furnature and walls.  Even when buying them scratching posts, if
they already learned that a couch is good, then there is nothing you can do.
V

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Robert Shelton
Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2011 10:10 AM
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This may be because we live where there are coyotes and raccoons, but I'd
never declaw a cat.  If the child and cat can't learn to get along, then you
don't want the cat.  Also, a cat scratch can be a learning experience for a
child who might be a little too aggressive (as they all are at first).
We've had dogs and cats for many years, and they always seem to work out
some kind of truce without any help from us.  The only tricky part is
socializing the kitty to humans, and in some cases, socializing the humans
to a kitty.

I'm really not a cat person either, but a good cat is a wonderful pet.  The
one we have now is Linda's exclusively -- the cat will have nothing to do
with me or any human other than Linda, but Macy has saved Linda's life.
Linda is a brittle diabetic, and the cat can sense when she's about to have
an insulin reaction.  It is the only circumstance when Macy will have
anything to do with me.  It's almost like the classic "Timmy's in the well"
scene from the old Lassie series.

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