Posted on 02/08/2017 7:54:15 AM PST by Olog-hai
Cats would keep their claws under a bill that would make New Jersey the first state to prohibit declawing.
The measure, which cleared the lower house of the Legislature last month, bans onychectomies and flexor tendonectomies on a cat or any animal unless a veterinarian deems them medically necessary. A vote on the measure was delayed in a state Senate committee Monday, and it’s not clear when it will move forward.
The practice, often undertaken to prevent cats from shredding furniture or injuring humans or other pets, is already banned in several California cities and in nearly 20 countries. …
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Miss Kitty has learned to use her scratching post to keep her nails trimmed.
And next it’ll be a federal law that you can’t cross state lines to declaw.
I’ve researched this issue and the technologies used have come light years from 10 years ago. I do NOT agree with essentially chopping off the last digit of a cat’s “fingers,” as was the former practice. Now, they use lasers which are much less intrusive and the recovery time is much shorter.
Regardless, a law against this is silly.
Then “back alley” declawing will rear its ugly head
FWIW, it’s really an amputation as they remove down to the first “knuckle”.
It is among the most savage of procedures used on animals and renders the cat defenseless by taking away it’s primary method of protection which is climbing.
It is also extraordinarily painful and the wounds are subject to debilitating infections.
The Law of Unintended Consequences says that this will result in more cats being killed in “shelters” because more people will decide that having a cat is just too much trouble.
Cats are hunters by nature, and declawing is the equivalent of taking away their hunting capabilities which they need in order to survive.
Domesticated cats may not need to hunt for food, but there have been many instances where cats have been abandoned or became lost, and did not have the ability to hunt and survive.
My daughter took in a declawed cat after a friend said she could not take care of the cat. My daughter knew that the cat could not survive on the streets.
(BTW, my daughter is a veterinarian.)
If you don’t want thorns, don’t plant roses.
If you don’t want claws, don’t keep cats.
A pressing issue of our time. If the Anarchist’s end up ruling I’d say declaw because cats will be easier to catch and eat.
Well look on the bright side. Sure ... you can’t declaw your cat but you can still kill your child if you want.
I’ve never had a cat declawed. Just can’t do it.
Yep because mine spend most of the day outside.
I vote no. That’s like going to the doctor and him taking your sidearm.
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Right?! Where is the sense in that?!
I am NOT a cat person. But a displaced 1+ lb. feral kitten wound up in my yard being barked at and cornered by my Brittany. I took her in. Tried to give her to the pound who would not take a kitten so small. Had to be at least over 2 pounds. I decided to get her fixed and keep her as an indoor cat. I did not have the heart to remove her claws. She does a little damage to the rugs, but I’ll live with that.
It’s pretty horrible and should not be done. Get the cat some things to sharpen on, and give up the desire for billows of silk draperies. I don’t know if all these animal cruelty things need laws, but declawing cats is cruel. As is docking dogs’ ears, chopping tails, etc.
We had a cat declawed once. Only the front claws. He was an indoor cat, too lazy to want to go outside.
When they get older the claws seem to get longer or they can’t retract them as well.
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