A “friend” (conservative and Christian, no less) on Facebook castigated me for simply defending the EVIL (her word) practice of declawing my feral rescue kitten in order to keep it in my home. I asked her this very question, would you rather they were destroyed? She never answered me. My kitten’s siblings very well may have been destroyed because as young as they were, they were mean.
declawing is equivalent to cutting people’s fingers off at the knuckle. it is pretty ugly stuff. It also leaves the cat defenceless, even an indoor cat can get outside.