Back about 100 years ago, cats were declawed pretty regularly. I had two who were declawed indoor apartment cats. Why? Because they destroyed thousands of dollars of expensive furniture and my ex husband said either declaw these two or get rid of them. So, I did, I could not break them of the clawing, I tried scratching posts, pads, spraying them with water, nothing worked. Anyway, I kept them for their lifetimes, One lived until she was 19.