There are a few alternatives to de-clawing your cat, such as claw covers or trimming back their claws, but you will have to be vigilant if you are in a home with an immunocompromised person.

Fewer than ten percent of family members scratched by a cat carrying cat scratch disease will develop the cat-scratch symptoms, and very serious illness from the disease is rare. If you've had cat scratch disease once, you are almost surely immune to it afterward.

Cat scratch disease must not be confused with other feline diseases, such as the cat-borne disease, toxoplasmosis. Toxoplasmosis is deadly to a pregnant woman's fetus, but presents in different ways and is more likely to be inhaled when a woman changes her cat's litter box. Cat scratch disease symptoms can be dangerous to a pregnant woman as well, but in an entirely different way.

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