On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 02:00:18 GMT, "Diane L. Schirf"
wrote:

In article ,
"Mary" wrote:

"Teddy" wrote in message
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Bad kitty-I have a 1 1/2 year old declawed male neutered cat that I've

P.S.--Kitty is not "bad." The Nazi ass who declawed Kitty, on the other
hand, is worse than bad.

I wonder if that's why Hodge bites, or if he bit and clawed when he had
claws, and that's why his previous owner had him declawed. (They
abandoned him.) It's hard to tell without the history.

he probably damaged the furniture. we had 3 adult cats. two are at
my parents home, one we had to give up when we moved from the Ukraine.
none of them scratched us ever because we trained them as kittens not
to. it took literally no time. the swat, which is fine. only one of
them bites, but very lightly, mostly to scare. their kittens, which
were many, never scratched either. Shaina, my kitten, never
scratched. she bites occasionally, but lightly and stops when told
to. is it really that common that when people get kittens, they can't
train the little kittens not to scratch?

-L
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