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Originally Posted by onesnowyowl
I would have liked to see anyone try that with my Fuzzy. She WOULDN'T, COULDN'T stay inside even after we moved to the suburbs and Mom got her declawed. Then when we moved back out to the country, we had no worries--Fuzzy learned to hit very hard and choke her prey, as well as attack with her back claws. She adapted.
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It's blunt time again. I'm sorry, but you're placing the blame on the wrong individual. It's not that the cat wouldn't/couldn't stay inside. The cat's caretakers wouldn't take the steps necessary to keep the cat inside, like, oh, say, closing the doors. The cat went outside because you and presumably your mother allowed her to.
So I say again, if you get a cat declawed, it should *without exception* stay inside its entire life. You cannot take an animal's defenses away from it and then send it out in the world where it might get attacked. Just because Fuzzy got lucky and it didn't get her killed does not mean other cats will be so lucky.