Christina Websell wrote:
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Christina Websell wrote:
"Catlady" wrote in message
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You are probably preaching to the converted on here.

It's illegal in my country unless for deep-seated nail bed infections
that don't respond to any other treatment. I've never seen a declawed
cat.

My suggestion is that if any of you use a vet that encourages
spaying/neutering and declawing at the same time, you ask why that vet
thinks it's acceptable and why they suggest it.
I'd be banned from my vet's surgery forever if I asked him to declaw a
cat to protect my furniture or in case they ever scratched me. He'd
think I was mad.
Vets need to stop offering this.
I stopped using my (otherwise caring) vet in Pasadena CA when I discovered
that the "laser surgery" he advertised was for declawing!
Cendrillon had been declawed before I adopted her (but I was hardly going
to refuse to adopt an abandoned cat because of that). So far as the
spaying or neutering at the same time as the claw surgery goes - I'd had
her a week when she came in heat!

I found this:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41599112...et-owners-say/

Well, I never knew it was also OK to cut dog's vocal cords to stop them
from barking.
I'm shocked.
If you choose to have a dog, it will bark and if you have a cat it has
claws. Either learn to live with that or don't have one.
The vets here would be struck off by their governing body if they performed
either surgery for the convenience of the owners.
It's disgusting that a nation such as yourselves allows it.

The man in the apartment below mine had a small dog whose vocal cords
had been severed. (I agree, it's a barbarous measure - he had also had
"dental surgery" to remove his "fangs".) They'd been living downstairs
for quite a while before I realized those hacking noises were not a
large cat with a hairball problem. The surgery didn't stop the dog from
TRYING to bark, just substituted one sound for another. Wouldn't it have
made better sense to simply train the dog not to bark at the slightest
provocation? (They call it "obedience training", but of course it
requires a little effort on the part of the dog's owner.)