My kitty is terrified of the outdoors and is perfectly happy to look at birds out the window. I also live in an area full of dogs, coyotes and dumb teenage/college drivers.

Indoor cats tend to be healthier too, and I can't afford monstrous vet bills, so she stay inside. Sure she might be happier going out side, but she's happy inside too.

Actually the main reasons I didn't declaw her are she's not a scratcher and I didn't want to fork over for it. If she was a serious, incorrigible scratcher, I'd have the claws off. I believe that declawing is something to think seriously about, and when other avenues have been tried and failed, someone isn't wrong for declawing.

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