My friend Mattie has asked me to ask you guys a question since you've helped me out so much.
She has a young male kitten named Bianco who is roughly the age of my two young ones, Leo and Mercury, he is a sweet, pure white Domestic Medium Hair.
I have no photos of him but this cat could be his literal twin (Bianco is just a little bit smaller), it looks just like him, eye color and all.
He has a very severe scratching problem. She has tried giving him scratchers of all kind, cat trees, toys and even spraying the existing scratchers with catnip and he still refuses them and instead scratches the curtains, couch/loveseat, carpet, clothes hanging in the closet and once he started kneading/scratching on her 6 month old daughter that caused several long scratches on the baby's hip and leg.
She knows that he is not doing it maliciously and he is a very sweet and lovable cat. She is considering a declawing procedure and whats to know if any of you have had your cats declawed or if you have any tips or trick to getting him to stop the scratching without having to resort to the procedure.
I'm honestly not sure what advice I can give her, none of my cats have this problem since they love their scratching posts but I have told her about the cons of the procedure. Though as some of you know, Nova, my oldest, was declawed for medical reasons due to his paws having a deformity that caused his claws to continually puncture his pads when he walked that caused open sores that kept getting horribly infected despite constant trimming and management and I was very against the procedure until it was apparent that it was the only thing that was going to stop the open sores and infections permanently. We even tried Soft Claws, which I also recommended to her, but his feet and claws were shaped in such a way that they did not fit correctly no matter what size we tried. In some cases the claw was so oddly grown that it looked more like a trident (and not in the way a usual cat nail sometimes splits to shed)
Thank you all!!
She has a young male kitten named Bianco who is roughly the age of my two young ones, Leo and Mercury, he is a sweet, pure white Domestic Medium Hair.
I have no photos of him but this cat could be his literal twin (Bianco is just a little bit smaller), it looks just like him, eye color and all.
He has a very severe scratching problem. She has tried giving him scratchers of all kind, cat trees, toys and even spraying the existing scratchers with catnip and he still refuses them and instead scratches the curtains, couch/loveseat, carpet, clothes hanging in the closet and once he started kneading/scratching on her 6 month old daughter that caused several long scratches on the baby's hip and leg.
She knows that he is not doing it maliciously and he is a very sweet and lovable cat. She is considering a declawing procedure and whats to know if any of you have had your cats declawed or if you have any tips or trick to getting him to stop the scratching without having to resort to the procedure.
I'm honestly not sure what advice I can give her, none of my cats have this problem since they love their scratching posts but I have told her about the cons of the procedure. Though as some of you know, Nova, my oldest, was declawed for medical reasons due to his paws having a deformity that caused his claws to continually puncture his pads when he walked that caused open sores that kept getting horribly infected despite constant trimming and management and I was very against the procedure until it was apparent that it was the only thing that was going to stop the open sores and infections permanently. We even tried Soft Claws, which I also recommended to her, but his feet and claws were shaped in such a way that they did not fit correctly no matter what size we tried. In some cases the claw was so oddly grown that it looked more like a trident (and not in the way a usual cat nail sometimes splits to shed)
Thank you all!!
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