[devonin]

Originally Posted by Charu

Noted, sir. Learn by mistakes, as they say.

I more meant Zeldagurl, she's used the terms if not interchangably, at least ambiguously, which is part of why people latched onto the 'Don't declaw the cat' bandwagon.

If the idea of your furniture getting clawed up while you are still training the cat to not do that is seriously a problem (And I guess if you have 30,000 dollars worth of living room furniture it is) the best answer quickly becomes 'Don't get a cat then'