Never ever declaw a cat...

[SxyPorkie]

AudioFuzzy,
Whatever if you so called them whoever cruel abuse their cat declawed..

I don't give you a damn... I don't judge you about every per details which you kept tend throwing their mouths again..

You have to respect them everyone who prefer not declawed or declawed.
*sigh* Seems you not even care all you want war w/other AD'ers about this topic.
Ridcouisly!

GA... I completely agree with you... seems that fuzzy tends to entice anyone to bash .... thats her..

Both of my cats are indoors and declawed.. and they are happy... playful.... if they are angry they would bite me...

 

[VanG]

yep, personal choice to abuse an animal, or not.

Fuzzy

:jaw:

So it is all our fault for abuse cat by declaw but feed cat, take good care of cat, and provide cat a home?

I am speechless.

 

[dreama]

I also think it is extremely cruel to declaw cats. I'm so glad it is illigal in England. If people don't want a cat with claws they should not get a cat at all.

I'm also against tail docking and debarking of dogs. My first guide dog had no tail because he was meant to be a show dog. He had to got into early retirement because of his problem with agression.

 

[dreama]

If I was hurting people or jeopardizing in their lives by ruining their furnitures or any other things that can possibly need to be declawed then Yes i would want to.

I have no furniture in the chinchilla room and hardly any wallpaper either. With your logic it would justify me removing their teeth.

Fortunately for my chinchilla's I do not think like that. I have to put up with my chinchillas and their less then desirable behavior. I think the same should apply to cat owners too. When I had a cat I would never dream of having him declawed. He used to find it amusing to chuck things off shelves and sometimes they broke or my dog chewed them up. I lost a lot of models that way. You just can't be too materialistic if you live with other animals.

 

[dreama]

yep, personal choice to abuse an animal, or not.

Fuzzy

Good point. The fact some people seem to think animal abuse is a personal choice is to me extremely shocking.

 

[VanG]

Have you read Opal´s link?


Yes, I did. I will say that Petsmart and Banifield doesn't give any damn about that feeling because they wants $$$$$. I used to work there for a while so I am glad I quit.

Yes, I know what you mean... I doesn´t mean to point my finger to you but use "you" in general way... (I didn´t know before that you have pets).

None offensive taken! Smile! I used to have cat 2. 1 of them was declaw. Happy grew with declaw and she was just fine and being herself. I didn't ask for declaw. It was for my parents' belief. Diamond, He had claws and was outside cat. We don't mind to have him in our house but he was so mean and mean cat. He died by being shredded from farmer's machine.

To my suggestion...

I guess that US Veterinary Board are lazy to educate the pet owners to be how to take care of their future pets? Or make profit themselves from the pet owners to declaw the pets?



US Veterinary Board has Pro and Con to support Declaw and not to declaw. US Vet Board's job is not to educate pet owners but jos to educate student to be vet to educated owner. So mainly, it is DOCTOR's RESPONSIBLE.

What you said about cons/pros... health purposes? Can you care to explain the example the reason why they amputiere cat´s claw for? What´s an exact health purposes for?

Health purpose by Vet to make decision what right to declaw or keep it. One time, Dr. Cow turned down request to owner that she wanted to declaw cat for outside just because she hate to see cat digging in her garden. And Dr. Cow turned down on cat being declaw is because of blood problem in cat's vein. So Hope that answer for you but I am not Vet but that is what I know so far.

 

[Cheri]

:jaw:

So it is all our fault for abuse cat by declaw but feed cat, take good care of cat, and provide cat a home?

I am speechless.

If you don't think declaws is a form of abuse then that's all it matters, because I for one don't consider declaws as an abuse.

 

[VanG]

If you don't think declaws is a form of abuse then that's all it matters, because I for one don't consider declaws as an abuse.

No I don't think declaw is not a form of abuse. I am just being sarcastic about what fuzzy said. I was thinking. Declaw is abusing animal? that meant we feed cats, take care of cat is a form of abusing? I am just stunned at the comment. That is all. Sorry for misunderstood.

 

[Audiofuzzy]

:jaw:

So it is all our fault for abuse cat by declaw but feed cat, take good care of cat, and provide cat a home?

I am speechless.

If declawing is not abuse, then why is it banned in some countries?
besides, it's my personal opinion that declawing is an abuse, I don't speak for anybody else. and looks like not only mine opinion - in those COUNTRIES where it is considered illegal, they seem to think so too...

Fuzzy

 

[Audiofuzzy]

No I don't think declaw is not a form of abuse. I am just being sarcastic about what fuzzy said. I was thinking. Declaw is abusing animal? that meant we feed cats, take care of cat is a form of abusing? I am just stunned at the comment. That is all. Sorry for misunderstood.

If you feed your pet, take care if your pet, and then kick it - is it not an abuse because after all you feed it and care for it?

Fuzzy

 

[GarnetTigerMom]

yep, personal choice to abuse an animal, or not.

Fuzzy

How is that abuse when you take a cat to a vet to have it remove? I don't see a law says can't declaw a cat. But remember it their personal choice what they want to do for the cat.

 

[GarnetTigerMom]

Abuse is more like straving an animals or kicking the animals or putting them into animals fight for sports or throwing an live animals in the river or burying them alive is abuse yes. For Declawing by a vet is not abuse. As long as people want a cat to be indoor cat then they are safe, But if you want to let the cat to be outdoor type then don't declaw them simple as that.

 

[Audiofuzzy]

Abuse is more like straving an animals or kicking the animals or putting them into animals fight for sports or throwing an live animals in the river or burying them alive is abuse yes. For Declawing by a vet is not abuse. As long as people want a cat to be indoor cat then they are safe, But if you want to let the cat to be outdoor type then don't declaw them simple as that.

Then why some countries banned declawing, and made it illegal?

Fuzzy

 

[Audiofuzzy]

How is that abuse when you take a cat to a vet to have it remove? I don't see a law says can't declaw a cat. But remember it their personal choice what they want to do for the cat.

oh, like they are no sick bastard vets out there who kick animals or outright torture them?

as for the declawing laws, see here:

The following is a list of countries in which declawing cats is either illegal
or considered extremely inhumane and only performed under
extreme circumstances.

DECLAWING: What You Need to Know

Fuzzy

 

[Audiofuzzy]

Understand what is declawing, with pictures:

DECLAWING: What You Need to Know

it's just HORRIFIC.

"Declawing is actually an amputation of the last joint of your cat's "toes". When you envision that, it becomes clear why declawing is not a humane act. It is a painful surgery, with a painful recovery period. And remember that during the time of recuperation from the surgery your cat would still have to use its feet to walk, jump, and scratch in its litter box regardless of the pain it is experiencing."
Christianne Schelling, DVM


Fuzzy

 

[Reba]

If declawing is not abuse, then why is it banned in some countries?
besides, it's my personal opinion that declawing is an abuse, I don't speak for anybody else. and looks like not only mine opinion - in those COUNTRIES where it is considered illegal, they seem to think so too...

Fuzzy

I don't live in "some" countries; I live in the USA. I follow USA laws. There are many things that they do or don't do in other countries that they are welcome to keep inside their own borders.

 

[Reba]

Then why some countries banned declawing, and made it illegal?

Fuzzy

Who knows? Probably because of special interest political pressure, just like everything else.

 

[Reba]

oh, like they are no sick bastard vets out there who kick animals or outright torture them?

Possibly. They might even be the same vets who are against declawing.

...The following is a list of countries in which declawing cats is either illegal or considered extremely inhumane and only performed under
extreme circumstances.

So? I don't live in those countries.

 

[Cheri]

Abuse is more like straving an animals or kicking the animals or putting them into animals fight for sports or throwing an live animals in the river or burying them alive is abuse yes. For Declawing by a vet is not abuse. As long as people want a cat to be indoor cat then they are safe, But if you want to let the cat to be outdoor type then don't declaw them simple as that.

Agreed!

 

[Reba]

All of my kitties were adult cats that were either stray, in shelters, or in families that couldn't keep them. I guess it would have been better to let them be euthanized than to get them declawed. :roll: One was already declawed before we got him. One we never declawed because he was an indoor/outdoor stray.

None of them suffered any side effects from declawing.