Didn't read whole thread but why get a pet that's larger than a chocolate bar if you are going to keep it caged ?
I have what I consider a nice house, and try to keep the soft paws on my cat (a definite must - don't even ask the vets about declawing or they will look at you like you just tried to sell your infant son's kidneys at the hospital). Unfortunately she chews them off all the time and sometimes I slack for a while, and she's scratched up walls in basically every room in my house, including weirdly trying to climb a dividing wall between my kitchen and hallway.. She can get impressively high.
At first it bugged me, being a new house, now a few years later I just accept that I have to paint soon anyway to keep things looking fresh since I ding up the walls quite a bit myself.
I have a rag doll, and she's awesome, but also a total ass sometimes and she only recently became personable to strangers (took almost 2 years).
Nsfw for size, Tapatalk didn't even give me option to set size this time
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