"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote
John Doe wrote:

John Doe almost looks like a spammer to me but hard to tell.

Have you ever actually OBSERVED a declawed cat in action?

I have not, and I never will except maybe by chance. But I have this
thing called COMMON SENSE

Really? Your posts certainly do not display much of it!

I rescued 2 cats I didnt want and was afraid to take. The owner was having
them put to sleep as his new wife developed an 'allergy' when pregnant. I
think her 'allergy' was cleaning the cat litter so he had to do it. (There
are reasons why pregnant humans shouldn't do that for a bit). The guy
wanted to review my home to be sure I was 'suitable for his beloved
kitties'. AKA spick and span clean and all that.

I cleaned up, and took the kitties adding them to a 2 cat existing household
and i have *never* declawed a cat. I learned instead how to train them to
acceptable behavior.

These 2 new kitties minced in with pain. A sad story and a rather ugly one.

I took them to my vet right away as even for declawed cats, this was very
abnormal. Vet took all the info I had on the guy and tried to take him to
court for animal abuse. Although he could not 'prove' it, he suspected the
guy did the job himself with toenail clippers. All 4 paws on both of them.

We never got the guy and the vet did me the best cut rare deal of 100$ a
foot for the 2 of them that he could (this was cost of materials and meds
only) to make it so they could walk pain-free.

I admit this is a radical case but I am just ever so much into not declawing
since that.

Not "superficial" at all, since I have actually LIVED with a declawed cat,
and you admit you have not! (Are you REALLY as ignorant as you make
yourself appear to be?)

My attributes may be wrong (sue me). I have lived with 2 declawed and 2
normals at the same time. Fast I noted front declaw alone leads to more
hissing and defence becomes BITING which leads to vet due to puncture
wounds, rare in clawed kitties.

And what the **** does a dog's tail have to do with a cat's claws?

It's an integral part of the dog's anatomy, and equally necessary to it's
total well-being. (Idiot!)

There we may differ a tiny bit. I don't agree with docking for dogs, but we
have over bred some versions to where they literally break their tails and
it may have to be done later to give them ability if it can't be reset. You
may find a search on 'cold tail' useful there. Our Cash-pup broke his tail
before we got him and had an incident about 1 year after we got him but it
healed. If it happens again, we may have to dock him to remove the pain if
he gets an unmovable tail hanging down. He's not your traditional 'dock
tail' sort so it isnt for cosmetics. Imagine part of your spine broken then
hanging helplessly down and hurting all the time. Thats when 'docking' is
medical. It removes the weight hanging down that they *cant* do anything
about except feel pain from.

So, my stance (forgive me if messed attributes up) is declawing is never
needed or good, but docking a dog *may* sometimes be a medical need.