Originally posted by CareBear
Irony as in people who comment without doing research? Declawing isn't like clipping your nails... it removes a part of the paw as well.
If you're too lazy to spend time with your pet and encourage it to learn which places it should and which places it shouldn't be scratching why did you get one in the first place?
If at least 21 countries have either outlawed it or consider it something that's frowned upon then that to me to suggest it's something more then just a handful of people who like to 'whine' about *needless* cruelty against animals.
(Edited to add that scratching stuff is just natural behaviour for a cat, just like barking is with dogs. If it's an outdoor cat then you get the occasional prey delivered at your doorstep. You might as well go shave it bald after the winter because it's going to start loosing some of it's fur and leaving it all over the place. My point is those are just things you know will happen when you get a pet into your home. If in retrospect you regret it then you only have one person to blame)