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"Arjun Ray" wrote in message
... In , "bewtifulfreak" wrote: Just a note: fingernails and claws are *not* the same. Our nails are actually hardened (keratinized) skin, and do not grow out of a bone. Removing a fingernail does not require amputation of any bones. A claw is an integral part of the distal phalanx (the third, outermost bone of the finger), and grows directly out of it. Thank you for this detailed explaination. Thus, declawing requires amputation of the distal phalanx. The problem with partial amputation (yes, sawing through rather than disjointing) is that claw regrowth can happen - almost always in misshapen form. You mean with the laser declawing? This sounds at *least* as bad as having the toe taken completely off! Again, thank you for broadening my declawing knowledge. The more I hear, the more I know it's just something I could never consider. I still feel bad for declawing one of our kitties way back when before I realized the reality of the procedure, and we would never have considered it then, except that we were told we couldn't have her in the apartment we wanted to rent unless we did it. Knowing then what I know now, I would have given up the nice apartment and found another. Ann -- http://www.angelfire.com/ca/bewtifulfreak |
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lid wrote on 8/11/03 10:42 AM: In , "BrandyÂ*Alexandre" Â* wrote: | How many industrialized nations are there in the world anyway? | Twenty of them have banned declawing. Half of them admit there's | still an underground for it Cite your source, please. Like Brandy can "cite" anything. snort |
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In , "bewtifulfreak"
wrote: | "Arjun Ray" wrote in message | | Thus, declawing requires amputation of the distal phalanx. The | problem with partial amputation (yes, sawing through rather than | disjointing) is that claw regrowth can happen - almost always in | misshapen form. | | You mean with the laser declawing? It's my understanding that the laser is only doing what used to be done with guillotine-like scissors (i.e. cut through the tendons, cartilage, etc, connecting the distal phalanx to the rest of the finger/toe, to disjoint it). I suppose it's more "surgical" in that sense. Declawing has had evolution in its procedures: things like "scraping out the claw root" and "sawing off enough of the bone" are older approaches which have failed - due to unacceptable incidence of claw regrowth - and have been abandoned in favor of complete disjointing, which is actually a "simpler" procedure overall. Whether it's done with a knife-edge or a light beam is a quiddity. | This sounds at *least* as bad as having the toe taken completely off! Well, for a cat, that's basically what it is. We walk on our feet, distributing the load from toes to heel. A cat walks on its distal phalanges. The bone is at an angle to the second phalanx, not end on as in our fingers or toes, sort of like a shoe, and lies flat along its length when the cat walks, with the other bones arranged upward in an arc. Removing that bone transfers the entire pressure onto the point of the now exposed second phalanx. The adaptation is to the increase the arc from the wrist downward to make as much of the second (and even the third) phalanx lie flat along the ground. In heavier cats (such as the big cats) this can lead to collapse all the way up to the wrist. See this before-after video of a lion whose suffering was alleviated by reconstructive surgery: http://www.gt.net/~pproject/naala/kona.mov (It's referenced from http://www.pawproject.com/html/default.asp ) |
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