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I consider my cats family. Declawing them would be a cruel thing to do. Pets are not decorative items that look good in your house, sit on your lap and allow you to pet them when you want to touch something soft and warm, and then are otherwise invisible. My cats are great cats, they do sit on my lap because they want to be petted and they love company. My cats do not scratch the surfaces in my house except for their scratching pole and one carpet. I'd say it's a small price to pay. I have good and friendly cats because I brought them up well. Everyone who meets my cats is always surprised how easy-going and friendly they are, even with strangers. If you take away a cat's claws, it can't play-hunt properly, it can't play on climbing frames properly, so what are you going to have the cat for? So it can sit indoors all day doing nothing? What is the point? I could never consider declawing my cats. It may not be the practical thing to do, but I'm not being practical about my cats. I love them and to declaw them would be inhumane and very cruel.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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