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Old November 23rd 13, 04:24 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 19:08:40 +0000 (GMT), Judith Latham
wrote:
Poor Spicey.

Did you get to see the vet?


Yes. I took Spicey to TED for her dewclaw issue, and while waiting in the
examination room, she looked so wide-eyed and plaintive, that I took
gathered her out of her carrier, and planted her on my lap. She's not
exactly a lap cat, of course, but she buried her little harlequin face in
my armpit for a minute.

Then she seemed to decide that she wanted her explore her new surroundings,
and tried to make off.

The vet said that despite its impressive shape and size, the ingrown claw
wasn't causing much damage, and sent her home with a simple claw trim and a
shot of antibiotics.

When she got home, boy was she mad! Spicey avoided me for hours, and
snapped at me when I tried to look at her newly trimmed paw. It occurred to
me later that I should have asked for the overgrown claw as a keepsake.

She seems to have forgiven me now, and will even come up to me if I call
her. She's been bopping Buster on the head every time he comes up to sniff
her though, so she must still be a little steamed. But I notice she's
slapping him with her right paw, so it must be feeling all right.
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Old November 23rd 13, 04:30 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 14:17:59 -0800, The Other Guy
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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???


This made me LOL.

Fortunately, they didn't need to declaw her dewclaw, but I'm burning with
curiosity about what her stub of dewclaw must look like after they clipped
it. It was huge compared to her other claws! I wonder it'll shed its
sheaths properly now and eventually go back to a normal size.
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Old November 23rd 13, 04:49 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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On 11/22/2013 10:24 PM, Takayuki wrote:
On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 19:08:40 +0000 (GMT), Judith Latham
wrote:
Poor Spicey.

Did you get to see the vet?


Yes. I took Spicey to TED for her dewclaw issue, and while waiting in the
examination room, she looked so wide-eyed and plaintive, that I took
gathered her out of her carrier, and planted her on my lap. She's not
exactly a lap cat, of course, but she buried her little harlequin face in
my armpit for a minute.

Then she seemed to decide that she wanted her explore her new surroundings,
and tried to make off.

The vet said that despite its impressive shape and size, the ingrown claw
wasn't causing much damage, and sent her home with a simple claw trim and a
shot of antibiotics.

When she got home, boy was she mad! Spicey avoided me for hours, and
snapped at me when I tried to look at her newly trimmed paw. It occurred to
me later that I should have asked for the overgrown claw as a keepsake.

She seems to have forgiven me now, and will even come up to me if I call
her. She's been bopping Buster on the head every time he comes up to sniff
her though, so she must still be a little steamed. But I notice she's
slapping him with her right paw, so it must be feeling all right.

All around great news, Tak! Thank you so much for the Spicey update.

Jill
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Old November 23rd 13, 02:28 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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On 11/22/2013 10:24 PM, Takayuki wrote:
On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 19:08:40 +0000 (GMT), Judith Latham
wrote:
Poor Spicey.

Did you get to see the vet?


Yes. I took Spicey to TED for her dewclaw issue, and while waiting in the
examination room, she looked so wide-eyed and plaintive, that I took
gathered her out of her carrier, and planted her on my lap. She's not
exactly a lap cat, of course, but she buried her little harlequin face in
my armpit for a minute.

Then she seemed to decide that she wanted her explore her new surroundings,
and tried to make off.

The vet said that despite its impressive shape and size, the ingrown claw
wasn't causing much damage, and sent her home with a simple claw trim and a
shot of antibiotics.

When she got home, boy was she mad! Spicey avoided me for hours, and
snapped at me when I tried to look at her newly trimmed paw. It occurred to
me later that I should have asked for the overgrown claw as a keepsake.

She seems to have forgiven me now, and will even come up to me if I call
her. She's been bopping Buster on the head every time he comes up to sniff
her though, so she must still be a little steamed. But I notice she's
slapping him with her right paw, so it must be feeling all right.

Thanks for the update and for taking such good care of Spicey. It's nice
to hear that she will sit on your lap and come when you call her.

Ann
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Old November 23rd 13, 08:02 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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"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.






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Old November 23rd 13, 09:40 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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On 11/23/2013 2:02 PM, Christina Websell wrote:
"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.


Yes, you did. But it turned out okay. He posted he didn't have to have
the dewclaw removed.

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.


I wouldn't necessarily strike the vet off the list now. That's because
there are so few near me. When Persia came to live with me there were
more and easily accessible. I'm pretty if I'd asked her vet they would
have done their best to dissuade me. Moot point since someone else
already had her front declawed.

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.


A torn dewclaw would no doubt result in something painful. That's what
Tak was afraid of with the ingrown dewclaw. I'm glad you realized he
wasn't talking about declawing Spicy. He's just looking out for her
comfort and well being.

Jill
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Old November 24th 13, 09:18 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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Christina Websell wrote in rec.pets.cats.anecdotes:


"Takayuki" wrote in message
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Spicey's become tame enough these days that she'll only give me a
firm slap and a growl for my little transgressions, like petting
her.

Today, I had a close enough look at her while we were chatting,
that I noticed something odd about her right paw - a little lump
where I wouldn't expect a lump.

I was a bit concerned, so I *picked her up* (to her protests),
reflexively gave her a head-kiss, then held her close against my
chest so that I could take a look. Spicey squirmed. And growled a
little. But I took a hard look at her paw.

The lump I saw was her dewclaw - and what a dewclaw! It was large
and semicircular, a spiral with no distinct beginning or end.
Instead of a slender needle (like her other dewclaw), a pearlescent
seashell. Uh-oh. Definitely ingrown.

So I'm going to have to make an appointment tomorrow to see if her
claw needs to be surgically removed or what. Poor girl! And I have
no idea how long she's had to walk on that.


Hope it goes well. How any country allows declawing I don't know.
It's illegal almost everywhere. It's time you USA's stopped your
vets from doing it by refusing to use them if they declaw. I can
just imagine if I asked my vet to declaw Boyfie. He'd strike me off
if I even asked.

It seems to me that it's not a good idea to have a cat if you don't
like claws. They come with them.

google about how many countries do declawing

Might have been just the USA.


You mis-understand a medical declaw although I am hoping it can simply
be snipped normally. This is not the same as declawing all toes on a
foot but the potential to remove one abnormal nail that is causing the
cat pain.

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Old November 25th 13, 10:31 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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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???


In fairness, OG, they do look awfully similar. Even after I read the
original post, I still look at that subject line and see "declaw".

Factor in the fact that Tweed's eyesight isn't the best, and it's easy
to imagine her making the same mistake.

I don't think the similarity is an accident, BTW - it's a pun, which is
not surprising, considering the post is from Takayuki. If the claw had
needed to be removed, I'm sure he would have gone along with that. Not at
all the same thing as removing all of a cat's claws for decor reasons.

Joyce
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"...she tells with a little bit of humor the story of the song and the Jews
as they move from the Shtetls of Eastern Europe to Western Europe to America,
to the suburbs, and to the Internet. As one interviewee says, "It's been a
long, strange journey from Ukraine to YouTube." -- "Hava Nagila": The Movie
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Old November 25th 13, 10:34 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:



jmcquown wrote:
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


So when my neighbor across the hall moved out and left his (declawed)
cat, what was I supposed to do - refuse to give her a home because she'd
been de-clawed?


scratching head How does not choosing a *vet* who performs declawing
equate to refusing to take in a declawed cat? If there's anyone who can't
do anything about the situation, it's the cat.

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"...she tells with a little bit of humor the story of the song and the Jews
as they move from the Shtetls of Eastern Europe to Western Europe to America,
to the suburbs, and to the Internet. As one interviewee says, "It's been a
long, strange journey from Ukraine to YouTube." -- "Hava Nagila": The Movie
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Old November 25th 13, 10:44 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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Takayuki wrote:

Yes. I took Spicey to TED for her dewclaw issue, and while waiting in the
examination room, she looked so wide-eyed and plaintive, that I took
gathered her out of her carrier, and planted her on my lap. She's not
exactly a lap cat, of course, but she buried her little harlequin face in
my armpit for a minute.


Aww... that reminds me of the first time I took Licky to the vet. It was a
day I had been dreading, because I had no idea how I was going to manage to
get him into a carrier. Anyway, we made it there, though late - it was a
long chase.

When he first got out of the carrier in the exam room, he immediately came
over to me, and like Spicey, buried his head in my armpit. I had gone from
terrifying predator to protective mother in a very short time. It was so
sweet when he did that. I realized that, despite his anxiety and avoidance
of letting me get too close to him, we had more of a bond than I thought. Of
course, this was all before he started demanding I pet his belly so he could
go into toe-spreading, turbo-purring trance mode.

She seems to have forgiven me now, and will even come up to me if I call
her. She's been bopping Buster on the head every time he comes up to sniff
her though, so she must still be a little steamed. But I notice she's
slapping him with her right paw, so it must be feeling all right.


I'm glad she's OK and didn't need surgery!

--
"...she tells with a little bit of humor the story of the song and the Jews
as they move from the Shtetls of Eastern Europe to Western Europe to America,
to the suburbs, and to the Internet. As one interviewee says, "It's been a
long, strange journey from Ukraine to YouTube." -- "Hava Nagila": The Movie
 




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