Some URLs about declawing your cat and why you shouldn't (consider this my penance for having considered it in the first place). I'm actually questioning the quality of my current vet...from what I've read, any vet worth his/her salt would refuse to perform the procedure, or at very least would really work to educate people who request it. During my chat with them, they never mentioned just how painful the procedure is, what the procedure really involves, and some of the possible long-term effects. I went in to become more informed about the procedure, and was not. I find that disturbing. Anyhow, the URLs:

• Declawing, by Scott Baker
• Declawing, what you need to know
• The ethics of declawing
• ...there are tons of others, just do a google search on "declawing cats".

I'm going to spend the money that I would have paid for the procedure on getting Cat some seriously kick ass cat-towers and scratching posts.

If anyone has any suggestions about how to train cats to not scratch furniture, feel free to email me.