SuEzQt2277 wrote:i agree that it's cruel, but if i ever have another cat he/she/it is getting declawed. i've been through too many couches in the past 20 years.
dc chick 2000 wrote:ITA. Declawing is cruel anyway & to let a cat outside who has been declawed isn't a good idea ever.
bad move to declaw an outdoor cat.
My mom thinks my cat may have been eaten by a fox.
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Posts: 2747 (12/03/2008 5:08 PM) Best Male '09
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Posts: 13720 (12/03/2008 5:08 PM) |
He's not an outdoor cat. He's mostly an indoor cat, but he likes to go outside a couple times a day. I suppose he's kind of half and half then. But
we have had him for 12 years and we hadn't had a problem until now. I realize that 12 isn't young, but he was very lively and healthy. I'm sure he
would have lived for another five years, at least.
Your cat came back after 17 days? Awww, lucky! I hope mine does. |
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Posts: 13721 (12/03/2008 5:09 PM) |
It wasn't my decision to declaw him.
 I was like 11 when we got him.
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seaner23 |
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Posts: 2748 (12/03/2008 5:09 PM) Best Male '09
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i only let my cat out for like an hour on saturday afternoons. i watch her the whole time though. she usually just eats some grass and she stays close to the
house.
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Posts: 9062 (12/03/2008 5:11 PM) |
I wasn't blaming you for the declawing. I am just concerned why he was let outside when he could get seriously hurt & he wouldn't have much of a
way to protect himself. Hopefully your kitty is safe & is off roaming in trash cans or something & will come home just smelling pretty awful.
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Posts: 13723 (12/03/2008 5:12 PM) |
Oh, I know you weren't.
He usually just goes out for an hour or so though. I don't know. He was fine up until now. |
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seaner23 |
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Posts: 2751 (12/03/2008 5:19 PM) Best Male '09
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maybe he met a pretty girl cat and ran off and got eloped?
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ScarletOWhora85 |
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Posts: 13728 (12/03/2008 5:21 PM) |
 Hopefully.
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Posts: 723 (12/03/2008 5:28 PM) |
Awwwwww....I am sorry. I hope he comes home, Scarlet.
I won't even let my dgos out in my back yard alone right now, and I have a huge privacy fence. There are a TON of coyotes in the woods behind my house and I can hear them out there killing deer and stuff. 
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Posts: 13731 (12/03/2008 5:33 PM) |
Thanks! I hope so too.
That's scary! I wouldn't want to let my dog out either! That's scary that they wouldn't even be safe in your back yard. And poor deer. 
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medora |
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Posts: 20 (12/03/2008 5:34 PM) |
Theres other ways to save your furniture other than declawing a cat. You could always buy them a scratching post/ cat tree and put cat nip on it so they will
want to scratch that instead of your couch or chairs. Also, you can get caps to put on their claws from a vet that can be removed so that if they do scratch
your furniture they won't ruin it.
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Posts: 11039 (12/03/2008 5:35 PM) |
seaner23 wrote: My parents cat, and when I had my kitten, both loved to go outside, but I think they hated going with me because if they walked more then a few feet away from me I was like 'COME BACK HERE!' and would go and get them and bring them back right next to me. We have a lot of stray dogs though, and people
drive like assholes, going 40 down the street, so I was always scared the cat would freak and run out in the road and get hit.
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ScarletOWhora85 |
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Posts: 13732 (12/03/2008 5:36 PM) |
They have caps that they put on their claws? Hmmm, I didn't know that!
None of my cats have ever liked catnip. Weird. |
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medora |
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Posts: 22 (12/03/2008 5:38 PM) |
Yep! You should ask your vet about it if you ever end up with another kitty. But all in all I feel your pain for losing your cat. My cat is my fur kid, due to
the breed of cat he is he isn't allowed outside without supervision. So I trained him to go outside with a cat harness and leash from when he was a kitten.
He loves to go on walks!
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Posts: 13734 (12/03/2008 5:40 PM) |
Yeah, I will. My mom has a kitten, but she had her declawed too. Oh well.
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ScarletOWhora85 |
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Posts: 13735 (12/03/2008 5:40 PM) |
So do these caps stay on until the vet takes them off?
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JcURoCMySoX |
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Posts: 58 (12/03/2008 5:42 PM) |
Foxes eat mice, rats, things of that nature. They don't eat cats.
Cats go off all the time. I had a cat that disappeared for a month then came back. My mother in laws cat disappeared for a couple of months, then one day, saw her cat sitting in the driveway down the street. She took him home but then he went back to the other house. She said he liked it down there better, so she let him go back. You need to put up signs as soon as possible and contact your local shelter. |
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Posts: 23 (12/03/2008 5:45 PM) |
I believe that they do. I haven't done much research into it myself since my cat sticks to his scratching post. But I did look into it briefly a few years
ago when I first got my cat just in case.
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Posts: 11042 (12/03/2008 5:50 PM) |
ScarletOWhora85 wrote: Depending on how active your cat is, the caps come of in 2-4 weeks. You can buy them at any animal supply store, and do it at home. I was going to try it with my kitten-I never had the heart to get her declawed, I have a ripped up couch now-but I could care less, but I never got to try it with her. If you want them to-most vets will put them on. |
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Posts: 247 (12/03/2008 6:00 PM) |
I remember reading somewhere that if the mother cat dosen't like capnip none of her kittens will but if she does then all of her kittens will. Don't
know if it's true or not. All our cats have always loved catnip.
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