Save a Paw, Don't Declaw

We hear it all the time... "I had to declaw him, he was destroying my furniture." But declawing is a painful, serious surgery that often leads to a lifetime of complications and personality changes (not good ones). When my son was little, he wrote on the walls with permanent markers, but I didn't cut his fingers off. I taught him that this was not a desirable behavior. You can do the same with your cat.

Here are some tips from Jackson Galaxy on how to do just that:

https://www.jacksongalaxy.com/blog/how-to-stop-your-cats-from-scratching-furniture/