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My wife and I adopted two kittens from a stray agency. They turned out to be Maine Coons. She eventually agreed (after my insisting) to have our kittens de-clawed. While I have no doubt the kittens suffered a little from the surgery, having those Maine Coons de-clawed was the smartest thing we ever did. If you buy another nice piece of furniture and hope that your same Maine Coon won't scratch it to bits, you are just crazy. I don't mean to sound harsh, but we tried scratch pads, clipping claws, double sided tape, but they scratch anyway. It is a Maine Coon trait just like their weird "chirps" and chewing on everything. Half of their scratching is actually stretching. Your bigger problem is that you have a Maine Coon. The spray bottle/squirt gun worked about 3 times, then we read online that Maine Coons actually like to play in water, explaining why the squirt gun stopped working. One of them actually got up on the counter while we were at work, and chewed the trigger off the bottle. Our Maine Coons are very affectionate adult cats now, and every time they scratch on our furniture, carpeting, doors, dining room chairs, corners of the steps, I realize how much easier it is to like them when they can't damage anything with their scratching. As to the chewing, about the only thing that works if double sided tape coated in pepper. If anyone has any suggestions about chewing, I'm open for suggestions.