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In article <Ypqib.8069$x97.3872@clgrps13>, The_Real_ET@hotmail.com 
says...
> I would consider de-clawing to be more like removing a humans nails,
> wouldn't it be?
> Would you still be able to use your fingers? I think so.

There is no way to compare declawing a cat to removing a human's 
fingernails or any other part of a human's fingers, because a cat's paws 
and a human's hands are totally different.

If you want to make comparisons between those things, then you need to 
make fantastic leaps of imagination, like this:  Imagine that the very 
end of your finger is nothing but solid nail, on a sort of hinge so you 
can swing it forward and backward as needed.  Most of the time you keep 
it back, where it is unused and out of the way, but you swing it forward 
to scratch things.  Now you have the equivalent of cat claws.  Now 
imagine that you lose the ability to swing the claws forward; they are 
permanently swept back.  Everything is exactly the same as it ever was, 
except that you cannot scratch things.  Now you are the equivalent of a 
declawed cat.

> If it is going to
> be strictly
> an indoor cat and it's ripping your furniture apart, why not?

Indeed.