"jmcquown" wrote in message
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On 11/21/2013 5:17 PM, The Other Guy wrote:
On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 22:02:48 -0000, "Christina Websell"
wrote:

Hope it goes well. How any country allows declawing I don't know.

HOW in the HELL did you get DEclaw out of DEWclaw???


At first I read the subject as DEclaw, too. Had to look twice because I
knew my eyes must have been fooling me. Sure enough! It's especially
clear if you actually read Tak's entire post.

Yes, there may be a little surgery involved for the apparently painful
ingrown DEWclaw. It's not the same as having Spicey declawed.

To me it just sounds like USA bashing. Yes, I live in the USA. But I
don't have any control over whether veterinarians choose to declaw cats or
dock dogs ears. I wouldn't choose a vet that would do so, but that means
very little.

Jill
I misread it, sorry all. I thought Tak was about to declaw her but I should
have know better.
Actually, if your vet declaws and you tell them you'll stop using them if
they do, it will make a whole load of difference. It's illegal almost
everywhere in the world except USA. My vet would be struck off if he
offered this at the same time as spaying/neutering.
The only time a cat would be declawed here is if they had a nailbed
infection which wouldn't respond to anything else, and even then it would be
an unusual thing to do, with no alternative.
I have never met a declawed cat here.

Dewclawing is different. I got my whippet pups dewclawed at a few days old,
because when they are after things(like rabbits or whatever) they turn and
chase and can rip them off.
June did the dewclawing for me. The poor puppies sobbed for hours and the
mother of the pups, when let in again, attacked her face, like she knew
she'd hurt her pups. It needs doing but they get over it.
June got a very black eye from this. You hurt my puppies and that's you in
the face from me. I bite you and she did.