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Yesterday I went to the vet to pick up cat food for Muffin. There was a potential customer there. He was getting an estimate for neuter/declawing a cat. I tried to tactfully suggest some alternatives. Also I was suggesting that neuter and declaw all at once might create some behavior issues with the cat. The bottom line was the wife had new leather furniture and didn't want to have to deal with the cat. The husband had tried shoot with the watergun to stop the cat. Then the wife complained about the water mist on her wood floors. I told him about how when Max and Speedboat were inside cats I had managed to train them with scratching posts/catnip. Later it turned out my husband was allergic and we had no choice but to move the cats outside in a protected fenced in area. However it is not foolproof. I told him I glad I was we had never declawed them. Nothing seemed to change his decision. It ought to be against the law to declaw a cat.