Kwayera wrote:
Dewclaws are barely attached to the foot, and certainly not with joint, cartilage and bone. When you declaw your cat, you cut off its fingertips, sever the nerves, and prevent the cat from accomplishing normal and required psychological behaviours (grooming, scratching, etc). There can never be any moral justification for that - "oh, it was a kitten and it was scratching my furniture!" Yeah well, that's what kittens DO. It's called training.
My declawed cat was able to groom himself just fine, and he went through the motions of scratching. He was not in pain, aggressive, or mentally unstable. He was declawed when he was quite young, and adjusted just fine. All 4 of his brothers and sisters AND his mother died within 2 years after he was born (poison from neighboring farms or getting hit by cars). He lived until he was 15, and was quite happy. Declawing a cat is not the end of the world. You can't compare the end of a cat's toes to a human's fingertips - a cat does not think of the end of his toes the way we think of our fingertips. Sure, I wouldn't give up my fingertips to have nice furniture... but maybe my toes (assuming there would be no visible scarring i.e. if I had fur).

That being said, it would be nice if you would read entire posts - I did say that I would prefer to train a cat out of it, but would declaw the cat if there were no other options. It seems like you ignored my entire post, read the last little paragraph and then made a snarky remark.


BigDreams wrote:
I am so never getting married. I've never really liked babysitting.
4Horses and Holding wrote:
You know, with sperm banks and handy-dandy machinery, there really isn't much use for men. I mean, most cats will kill bugs.
aakora wrote:
I think most problems in life can be traced to an incorrect ratio of men to cats.
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