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Originally Posted by shakran
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.
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Aaand... you have had cats, right?
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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.
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This is part of why, IMO, cats shouldn't be declawed: they live for fifteen years or more, and you have no idea what their needs will be down the road. Our first cat was an indoor-only cat, and when our second cat came a few years later, the house wasn't big enough for the both of them. Only giving in to First Cat's demands to be indoor-outdoor brought sanity to our home. And now the same thing is happening with Second Cat and Third Cat. (lurkette wants Fourth Cat, but if she gets one, she'll be shopping for Second Husband.
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