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This is a painful subject. This post isn’t funny or cute or entertaining, but this is an important post because it’s about keeping the furry critters healthy and happy and, more over as their guardians, keeping them from unnecessary harm. So if you’re already against declawing, you may want to pass on this article, it’ll just make you sad. (but do click here to get some digital stickers if you’d like). My only hope is that this article will reach and inform someone considering declawing their cat.

I can’t think of a single good reason for declawing a cat, but I just don’t believe in unnecessary, painful and mutilative surgeries for people OR animals. Especially when there are easy, inexpensive alternatives like trimming your cats nails or products like Soft Claws.

You may not know but what the vet does when he declaws a cat is to completely remove the last joint in each toe of the cat’s paw. The inhumanity of the declawing is clearly demonstrated by the nature of the cats’ recovery from anesthesia following the surgery. Unlike routine recoveries, including recovery from neutering surgeries, which are fairly peaceful, declawing surgery results in cats bouncing off the walls of the recovery cage because of excruciating pain. Cats that are more stoic huddle in the corner of the recovery cage, immobilized in a state of helplessness, presumably by overwhelming pain. Relating this information overwhelms me and makes me sick. Declawing is amputation.

If I haven’t convinced you yet, look at your own hand or foot, think of having the end of each of your fingers or toes cut off, think of having your sensory and motor nerves cut, your tendons and ligaments cut right through the first joint and then think of having to write or walk that way. Declawing is amputation.

Now if you’re still not convinced, do a google image search for declawing. I’m not going to show you these types of graphic images here, but what you will find there is nauseating. Declawing is amputation.

I’ve recently read that declawing is primarily a United States practice and that many other countries have outlawed this barbaric procedure. And I wonder “Why in the world is declawing still legal in the United States? Don’t we love our animals just as much as other people in the world? Do Americans really care more about our couches than our companions?”

So I’m just wondering, what if every pet lover in the United States started only visiting vets who are against declawing?

Interested in reading more? Please go to this well informed article on the truth about declawing.