Cat Declaw Issue-Heard of this?

[Robinrs]

I rented for years, ALWAYS with cats and never heard that. I would not declaw my animals and when I adopt from rescue services they actually ask because they're against it.

My cats have NEVER scratched on a carpet or a wall of a house. Maybe a chair or couch but never a part of an apartment.

 

[luvmy3]

My cat likes to climb the screens of our windows and sliding glass doors. I could see having that requirement, its easier to do that then go after a tenant who refuses to pay for the damage when they get the bill. Replacing screens, carpet, drywall, moldings, etc and the labor to do it isn't cheap and when the tenant agrees to pay it beforehand they could be quite shocked when they HAVE to.

 

[PatsMom]

Back when I rented, I lived in a couple of apartments that required cats to be declawed. Not a problem since mine already was.

I've had quite a few declawed cats and never had litter box problems. My current spoiled child is a 14 pound male cat. He has some odd behaviors but biting and not using the litter box are not problems.

I've never actually had a cat declawed - all of mine were rescues that came that way. It is a lot less stressful for my husband - he is not a big cat person to begin with. He just puts up with the fur babies for my sake! If the cat started clawing at the furniture, it would need another rescue most likely. So it just works out better to have a declawed cat.

 

[SaraJayne]

My kitty is neutered, and he is also blind so he is not a scratcher. He does like to wrap himself around your ankle and hang on like a koala bear sometimes. I called my vet to ask if she had ever heard of this and she told me that declawed cats tend to stop using the litter box & also start to bite. So that would be more damaging to an apartment. Id rather have a cat with claws that behaves instead of a at peeing on things. We are looking elswhere for an apartment. My cat doesnt scratch carpets, he does leave fur everywhere. You pay for damages when you rent anywhere so it seems like a non issue. They would ahve a pet deposit & security deposit to cover all of that IF anything did happen. Plus, would you need to replace carpet due to dander? Not because of claws.

We arent going to rent there anyway, I just thought it was bizarre, never heard of anyonre requesting that before. Just dont allow cats if you are worried, problem solved!

Your vet is lying to you.

I've had every single one of my cats declawed and not a one of them ever went anywhere but the litter box and none of them were/are biters.

I'd get a new vet that didn't use false info to further her agenda.

 

[KiminChicago]

Our cat sleeps on our son's bed. When he was much younger (around 5), he'd sometimes wake up in the middle of the night and climb into our bed. Since DH is allergic to cats (I had the cat when we got married), our agreement was no cats in our bedroom.

Well, Zenobia didn't take too kindly to being kept out of our room when her boy was in bed with us, so she started trying to dig her way under the door. No matter what we did (squirting with water, etc.), she'd be right back as soon as the door closed. At 2 or 3 in the morning, this was not a great solution since I needed to be up for work in the morning. I finally asked the vet if there was something she'd recommend and she said this was probably the only situation where declawing would be an option. It was either that or send her back to the animal shelter, and considering how attached she is to my son, declawing her front paws was the lesser of two evils. By the time we had her front declawed, she had pulled a 3 inch hole in the carpet.

She still sleeps on his pillow and grooms him at night (I think that was what was waking him up when he was little) and he's almost 14 now. Fortunately, he's stopped waking up at night!

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

We rent, and our lease says nothing about declawing cats. 2 of our 3 are declawed. The one that bites is the one WITH claws! She is a demon beast. They all use the litter boxes.

Their rear claws have done a number on our furniture - mostly the seats of our wooden dining chairs. The one female with claws has shredded the corner of the sofa, 2 corners of the ottoman, and one corner of the chair in the living room. She has shredded the seat of the chair at my computer desk. She has snagged the crap out of my comforter, dust ruffle, and tablecloths. In terms of carpet, blinds, etc. there is NO damage to any of that.

 

[tvguy]

Not an issue here. It's illegal to have a cat declawed.
Never heard of such a requirement for renting.
But, I haven't rented in 28 years. I was shocked when I saw my son's apartment lease requires him to pay to have the carpets cleaned when he moves out....I would think that would be a normal cost of being a landlord, cleaning carpets between renters. But I guess it's normal.

 

[ClarabelleCowFan]

We are landlords in MD and renters in GA. Our property management firm in MD has their standard pet policy set that cats must be declawed but it is up to each owner to change it for their property. Our landlords here in GA required cats to be declawed and also required a $350 deposit for EACH cat.

I had never heard of the declawing issue until recently but apparently it is the "new norm".

 

[PrincessBelle39]

Here in Australia declawing is illegal thank goodness. Sorry, but it sounds so barbaric to me. We have always had several cats at a time (we have 3 at the moment) and have never had one that scratches walls or carpet. Ours have scratching post and limit their scratching to that.

 

[snarlingcoyote]

Well, the only bad cat bite I've ever had came from a declawed cat. Care to see my doctor bills and the scar? In his defense, he was provoked by another cat, was fighting mad, although not at ME and as he couldn't scratch the blank out of me, bit me instead. All things considered, I'd rather have been scratched. Painful yes, but it wouldn't have been deep puncture wounds, and scratches don't normally get such bad infections.

I've lived in a complex that had that requirement, but luckily we were newlyweds who didn't have a cat yet, so we adopted a declawed cat from animal control.

The second place we were supposed to live in was a small town with about 3 or 4 apartment complexes. The landlord was the same for all of them and did NOT accept any sort of pets. So we didn't live in that town. We bought a mobile home, paid it off in 5 years and used the money we made selling the mobile home to buy a house.

Actually, I should probably thank that landlord for turning me away!

 

[mhsjax]

Not an issue here. It's illegal to have a cat declawed.
Never heard of such a requirement for renting.
But, I haven't rented in 28 years. I was shocked when I saw my son's apartment lease requires him to pay to have the carpets cleaned when he moves out....I would think that would be a normal cost of being a landlord, cleaning carpets between renters. But I guess it's normal.

It's illegal to have a cat declawed in Ca? WEIRD

 

[dis-happy]

My kitty is neutered, and he is also blind so he is not a scratcher. He does like to wrap himself around your ankle and hang on like a koala bear sometimes.

You have a blind cat? How sweet. I read the book "Homer's Odyssey" a few months ago, a great story about a blind cat. Have you read it?

 

[mhsjax]

Blind cat, poor baby. My niece has a cat that is deaf. That cat meows so loud that you can hear him half way around the neighborhood, and I am not exaggerating. I guess it makes sense, he can't hear himself.

 

[Planogirl]

Interesting that some areas have outlawed declawing. I imagine that that would just make more apartment complexes ban cats altogether though.

 

[RadioNate]

I've never seen an apartment rental that didn't have a declaw requirement.

One of our cats are declawed and the other isn't. We are currently in a rental. I'm vigilant that she doesn't claw anything that isn't ours. I put down area rugs in the main areas to protect the landlords carpet. Carpet is my cat's main target. We keep the bedroom doors shut to keep her out. She isn't a bad scratcher but I don't want any damage and I wasn't taking any chances.

 

[LipglossAndLetdown]

Our cat claws our carpet. He doesn't claw anything else beside the carpet and his scratching post (but our furniture does show signs from just his walking and jumping off and on). He has a certain place in the living room area rug that he scratches, then on the set of stairs he scratches at the carpet on the vertical part of the steps. LOL.

I've never personally heard of a declaw requirement, but I guess it's the owner/landlords right to have that requirement just as it's someone's right not to rent from that person.

 

[tvguy]

It's illegal to have a cat declawed in Ca? WEIRD

We adopted from the SPCA and had to sign an seperate document noting declawing was not allowed.

 

[DVC-Don]

Back when we owned a couple of rental properties we had a no pets rule. One tenant brought in a cat anyway which destroyed most of the screens in the unit.

 

[tinkerbellandeyor]

Back when we owned a couple of rental properties we had a no pets rule. One tenant brought in a cat anyway which destroyed most of the screens in the unit.

My 3 cats are famous for destorying the screens in my apartment

 

[TheZue]

I've never lived with a cat, so clue me in: I thought the only thing they'd potentially scratch up would be furniture. Do they really scratch carpets?

I have a cat that claws the molding beside our sliding glass door. She also used to climb straight up the drywall as a kitten. She's a tiny ninja. The cat I grew up with destroyed curtains. They can go after all sorts of stuff if they have the crazies