myfurrypanda wrote:
This is my declawed cat, sobbing because he has no fingertips. It took many, many hours of therapy to cure his depression.
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After coming to terms with his loss, he became very aggressive. This photo is of my sister restraining him from eviscerating the cameraman.

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It got to be too much, we had to lock him outside. He tried to tell us that he would be helpless without his claws, but we were heartless and didn't care.
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So he had to take his chances outside. He would have been killed by cars or big yellow puppies, but the cancer got him first at age 15. (Don't worry, I'm just having fun - I know how dangerous it can be for cats outside).
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He was a pretty awesome cat. Everyone liked him except for one family. The people who lived next door to us were thawing steak on their freezer in their open garage, and he stole one. He had to abandon it when they chased him because it was too big for him to carry, but they hated him forever after that (they would spray him with their hose whenever they saw him - he developed a love for water! They thought that was funny, and he started to grow on them after that). I'm sorry, but that was their own damn fault - thawing steak in the open air with your garage door wide open? You're begging for SOMETHING to take it.

Anyways, he had a long happy life as a declawed outdoor cat. I would prefer to avoid declawing them in the future, and I've thought of only having indoor cats in the future (I get really stressed out about our current outdoor cat). But stop talking in absolutes, it isn't QUITE as horrible as some of you are making out.

I would say that having declawed outdoor cats is actually better for the wildlife.... except this declawed cat killed way more (especially birds) than my current cat with claws does.


Your Cat was beautiful, I'm sorry he passed..