Good grief - now someone is going to try and tell us what we can and can’t do with our cats. My cat, who has never been outside for nine years, doesn’t know that she doesn’t have any front claws but my furniture does.
So what do they think is going to happen to the cat who’s shredding everything, if they can’t them declawed.
They can still rip the curtains and furniture right after you’ve trimmed their claws.
The two times we tried the claw covers, one set lasted two days, and the second set were chewed off before we got home from the vet.
They will scratch anywhere and everywhere except the scratching post. even if you sprinkle catnip on it.
Hmmm, maybe I’ll get into the furniture repair biz in NY...
They can do it with lasers now. Faster healing and less pain.
Introduced our cat to a scratchy post and a scratchy cardboard claw sharpener and she’s never tried to do the furniture. Training. Declawing is barbaric.
Hurry, someone get this human toilet Hillary Clinton to a vets clinic asap.
How is that the business of the state?
I personally don’t think people should declaw cats, but it’s not up to the state to make laws about it.
I like both cats and dogs, they are both smart and trainable, if the owners would just take a little time for that.
This is a prime example,of govt punting on the very serious issues ofthe day,like their budgets and spending, and deliberately messing around in areas it has no business in dictating.
Lol. The defenders of feline claws have zero compunction as far as cutting off balls or slicing out ovaries.
Declawing and spay/neutering are personal decisions and neither the government nor you have any business in it
Period
OK... I’m going to take advantage of a thread that many cat lovers will read. WE NEED HELP.
We’ll be moving to another home in early June. Five of our cats will be no problem — put ‘em in carriers and take them to the new place. The sixth was feral for years. We rescued her from raccoons and coyotes two years ago and brought her inside.
She’s sweet, “talks” up a storm, and will let you pet her with one hand only. If she sees the other hand, she’s freaking out and gone.
Any ideas of how to capture her to put her in a carrier? We can’t possibly release her outdoors now, as she most likely wouldn’t survive after being inside and coddled for so long.
If you can help... bless you!
He was there for the whole conversation and I find it amazing that he stopped using the furniture as an exercise object. He's gone but the furniture remains with just a few punctures to help us remember the best cat ever - "The Bubber" was a 16 pound pure black (face disappeared when he blinked) alpha male cat with huge paws (that stayed sheathed even when we were forcing the most godawful pills down his throat if he needed medication) that never poked either of us but which took a swatch of bloody skin off another cat with a most casual swipe as it tried to invade his porch. We have a few acres and he liked to stay outside (another good reason to not declaw him) but would run to greet us as we polled in and would lead us to the front door like a dog might.
Before him, I was a dog guy but I have to admit I miss him more than any other pet we had.
He's the only cat I ever saw that hated to use the litter box - he would use it, then brace on the edges to keep his feet out of the "stuff" as he buried it. Then he would scrape his paw off on the edge of the box.
This is one where you do not accept the premise by discussing it. A simple “BS” spoken to the perps of a law like this works better.