[MyFairLacy]

Originally Posted by hha

I have had one of my fingers cut off...and it burned, but, it doesn't bother me anymore..and I never said it would happen, I'm saying it could, this lady in the forum probably thought it would never happen either, and since it has, she spoke to her vet, he told her it wasn't like it used to be when they declawed cats..I know if they're outside, they have to have their claws to protect themselves..we had a dog when I was growing up that also had his one eye put out by a cat, do, you not think it would be painful for a dog if it cost him his eye? I never meant to start any problems on this subject, I worry about these little dogs and what could happen to them..and vicki, that was pretty cruel to have said what you said, especially when I did lose a finger, BUT, I survived that

Do you know how RARELY a dog loses its eye from a cat scratching it? You act like it happens all the time and it doesn't. You don't even have cats (as you said you aren't a cat person) so you obviously don't know much about them so I think you should hold your "advise" since you haven't had any first-hand experience with the behavior of cats and dogs. And losing an eye wouldn't cost a dog it's life..and eye yes...but not its life. And a dog could lose an eye because of a LOT of things...there is just not a big risk like you say that a cat will scratch a dog's eye. I just can't believe you continue to suggest declawing all cats because the could possibly scratch the dog's eye...especially after so many of us that actually DO own cats say that our undeclawed cats and dogs get along just fine