well...i only have one thing to say about all that.....to declaw a cat is like to take ones fingers off....literally...
they take the claw and the first digit off....its a amputation.
Yes, when done at a young age, the cat might "get used to it", but many even normal housecats turn to excessive biting. I don't know how a basically still wild animal would do...they really rely on their claws for a great many things. I do have a housecat that is not declawed, and i watch him use the claws to even pick up things...to play and such...never is he destructive at all, most people think he is declawed.
Yes a wild cat would most certainly do A LOT more damage then any housecat, declawed or not.
Also think about it carefully.
If you get that wild cat, declaw it, and later figure out it does not work for you...that cat will be hard to place...probably impossible indoors....since if you have to get rid off it, its most likely due to being 1. agressive 2. destructive 3. spraying (YUCK, try to get THAT smell out of the house EVER, and i would think...big cat, LOTS spray..ugh, and quite natural to any sex wild cat to spray liberally, fixed or not)
That cat will have lost the ability to ever live outdoors, yes some house cats got "used" to live without claws....and will either use backclaws....or bite....for defense.
But a wild cat without claws...can never be rehabilitated for a quality outdoor life.
I have rescued A GREAT DEAL of cats.....declawed and not, and i have seen a lot of neurosis, and aggressivness in the declawed ones.
Before anyone jumps on me.....that owns declawed cats, i'm sure there are some where it works out just fine....but its really something that shouldn't be done...if we have to mutilate a animal in order to live with it, we shouldn't get it.
Before i get flamed........all this is just IMHO, and thru my observation, being a avid animal rescuer that went through lots of cat rescues.
Lucy
ps. if my spelling or grammar is lacking, its due to me being german...[img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img]
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