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.
We have two 12 year old
cats that were declawed
(front claws) when we
got them as kittens from
a veterinarian. I haven’t
seen a tree they couldn’t
climb or a mouse they couldn’t
catch. Birds brought into the
house usually survive due to
them not being ripped apart by
the cats’ claws, if we rescue
them in time and haven’t been
eaten. My skin and couches
have remained intact also.
Passing a law to keep cats from
being declawed is just stupid.
My cat still climbed trees after being declawed.
I disagree with your assessment. We have five cats, four of which have been declawed. The three youngest were declawed somehwere between 8 and 12 weeks. They suffered no pain whatsoever. They were romping around playing rough with each other an hour after the procedure. Their mother, who was between 9 months to a year old, was declawed at the same time. She did have more pain and discomfort, you could clearly see her walking gingerly for a week.
The declawed cats still catch mice and gophers, climb trees and beat the snot out of our neighbor’s clawed cats. That might be because they’re between 18 and 20 pounds—they’re BIG cats.
Our oldest cat still has his claws, we use “Soft Paws”, which are vinyl caps we glue over his trimmed claws. Those need to be replaced periodically, so we still find scratches on our leather furniture.