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| I am new to this community but find it very interesting. So thought I would check it out. I have three cats: Sidney (9), Snickers (4), and Skittles (10 weeks) all males. I just adopted Skittles three weeks ago and find it very interesting having a "baby" again. I do have a question: My older cats don't have any claws, but the kitten does. Skittles (the kitten) loves Sidney but appears to be using her claws on him. His poor nose is tore up pretty badly. Doesn't a kitten need to be older than four months to get declawed or can it be done earlier? Sidney is so passive that he doesn't do anything to the kitten to get him to stop using his claws on him. Any hints? Wendy and "boys"
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| Many vets will declaw and spay/neuter a cat at the same time. If you're sure you will declaw your kitten, that's probably the kindest way to do it - and yes, some vets will do spay/neuters at 4 months. I don't know if they'll include declawing that young or not - personally, I don't like declawing. Wonder if SoftPaws would help? They're like false fingernails for cats, you glue them onto your cat's claws and they prevent the cat from doing as much damage when they scratch furniture. Not sure if they'd help when it's another cat being scratched or not. You can buy them at a pet suppy place and do them yourself, or you can get your vet to do them. They last about 6 weeks.
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Hi,
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Welcome to Cat Channel loveshercats and keval00kr!  I would also suggest Soft Paws, I also personally hate declawing. Soft Paws are harmless and works.
  
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I agree with Mini, declawing is something I am personally not comfortable with .
Try the soft claws first, see how they work out for you, and welcome to the Cat Channel.
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The best thing to do may be to use soft paws. I think.
it would have been smarter to keep de clawed cats with other de clawed cats.
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| I do plan on having my kitten declawed but he is too young right now. I see no problem declawing. I think it is everyones personal preference. thanks
Wendy
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I had to declaw one of my cats. She just wouldn't stop clawing peoples legs. She had a scratching post that she would use plus your legs. We tried soft paws on her but she would immediately tear them off of her paws. She figured out how to chew them off. She would have really raw and bleeding paws and we had to take her in so in the long run we had to declaw her because we had a my younger brothers who were 2 yrs old and 6 months old coming in out of the apartment and we didn't want her to hurt them because she just didn't understand that scratching someone's legs to ribbons wasn't a nice thing to do. She was very stubborn about it.
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