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Please Please Please DON'T do it! Many vets don't even declaw cats anymore because it is inhumane.
What they do is DISLOCATE their first joints of their "fingers" so they can't retract their claws.
And, yes, it sometimes does change the kittys personality. Often times they stop using the liter box and other personality traits are "off."
My suggestions are this, 1) you may not have a problem with your kitty scratching but DEFINITELY buy a scratching post for EACH level of your house. And, IF they start to scratch your furniture, either squirt them with a water bottle or put a soda can with some pennys in it and rattle it when they scratch. You need to be on top of your kitty to train him/her to not scratch your furniture.
I am the biggest neat freak on this planet and my kitties have scratched this one chair of mine. I purposely only spent a little on it because it is unfathomable to me to declaw them. But what I did was put a scratching post next to the chair and then scratch that instead of the chair.
Please don't declaw your kitty. Please!
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