they're _retractible_, dummy!

how did cats survive before they had people to unhook their claws from things?  so far today, i've:

• unhooked fred from a sweater
• unhooked angelina from the screen door
• unhooked fred from the screen door
• unhooked fred from my shirt
• unhooked fred from the bedspread
• unhooked fred from a cuphook (don't ask)
• unhooked angelina from the screen door
• unhooked fred from the couch
• unhooked fred from the screen door
• unhooked fred from the scratching post (i'm telling you, don't ask) and
• unhooked fred from the screen door.
  

.....or maybe i should just drop fred from my sample.

and i'm going to need a "bemused" moodicon.

whoa.

gmail is amazing.  someone commented on my last post, livejournal emailed me, and gmail put up this site as an alternative to declawing cats:
http://www.softpaws.com/

although i have a feeling that applying vinyl nail caps to the kittens will make unhooking them look like a vacation.