Hell yeah, please ban declawing. It’s inhumane. And no, I’m not a nut or even a vegetarian (and nothing wrong with vegetarians), I’m just sane.
The little silicone claw caps work well and they don’t seem to mind wearing them after you get shredded to pieces putting them on.
Scratching post plus some gentle tutoring did the trick for my two. I like that they have something to scratch - it looks comfy as fuck, they stretch while clawing stuff.
I have a some variety of scratcher on every corner of the couch. I have some rope ones, carpet ones, a low one. My cat really just prefers to scratch the couch. Any attempt to persuade her to scratch the scratchers, she sees as a fun game and scratches the couch more.
I taught my cats to stop clawing me when they kneaded just by teaching them the word “claws” (but since my GF was Peruvian, we used spanish to talk to the cats and it was “uñas”).
All I did was bring their claws out a little, rub my finger across the tips so that my fingerprint vibrated the claws (to draw their attention there) then said “uñas”. And repeated it.
Then when we’d be cuddling they’d be kneading and if they started including their claws in the kneading I’d just say “uñas” and they’d retract their claws and keep kneading.
No operant conditioning required. I used a little classical conditioning to teach them the word, then mere mention of the word was enough because they already knew the claws were uncomfortable to other people. They were just extending their claws unconsciously while kneading.
My wife showed me some advice online to hold the scruff of their neck in your mouth like a mama cat would while clipping. I tried it and I was able to clip all the claws on my 23 pound cat by myself. He barely freaked out and he’s a huge baby scaredy cat about everything.
I did get a mouthful of hair but it was worth it.
We had 3 scratch-happy cats and quelled them with scratching posts. No declawing needed.
We just have outdoor chairs in our living room. They are hard for the cats to tear up, and cheaper to replace then proper furniture.
Also not a nut, nor a vegetable, nor a vegetarian. I’m all for a declawing ban. It is utterly cruel to value furniture over the wellbeing of a living creature.
If you’ve got nice furniture that you’re not willing to sacrifice to a cat, DON’T GET A CAT. Mutilating a cat just so that you can be close to said cat is fucked up. Let it live with people who can take care of it without having to alter it.
Being vegan is the “just sane” response to learning what we do to animals and the impact animal agriculture has on the environment 🤷
can you give an example?
i’m genuinely curious because outside of spiritualism type nonsense the information i’ve found in online and in-person american vegan communities has been pretty solid, and i’d like to know if i’ve been lied to.
Speaking as a heavy windows gamer who has Linuix as servers and workstations for over 20 years…
I think a big issue with lots of vegans is that they don’t know how capitalism works. People think that capitalism is just supply and demand, so if people don’t buy dairy or meat less animals will be slaughtered. But that just isn’t how it works. They can just raise the demand by making Got Milk campaigns and lobbying the government. Not buying a steak at the grocery store is not going to change the behavior of a multi-million dollar company even if hundreds of people go vegan.
idk if they link to the studies on vegan pets but they tend to have equivalent or better health results, although more studies are needed
Edit: here’s a review https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9860667/
Ah, so the lawyer really was a cat all along!
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Cats not having claws… They’re defenseless animals without them :/ would you rather they bite you with their kitty germ mouths or claw you when they’re telling you to fuck off
Kitties have the same right as every other living creature to the means of self defense.
Yay!
