Most educated and humane countries do not maim thier animals. Your vet is wrong, google declawing cats and study all the reasons not to do it. I have had cats all my long life and have never declawed a cat or had ruined furniture, they were trained so no problem. My neighbor declawed her cat years back and has felt guilty ever since, and when she got two kittens she no more would have declawed them than cut her grandsons fingers off.My daughter is a vet tech studying zoology and she has sat in on these operations and no matter how much anethesia they get without killing them, these cats still cry out. I suppose you think its okay to cut dogs tails off and bob thier ears just so it would look better. I hope anyone reading this post look up declawing before you do this to some animal that trusts you with thier life.