I hope that you don't find too many people who disagree with you about de-clawing. In my opinion, if your furniture is more important to you than your cat you shouldn't have a cat. I'm glad that de-clawing is forbidden here in Sweden. If you buy a cat from countries where they de-claw cats you have to make sure the cat you buy has all claws. If it doesn't you can't take it to cat shows, and that's not good if you want to breed on the cat.