Arjun Ray wrote:

In , Katra
wrote:

| Declawing comes to mind...

You must be proud to be living in the US, one of the few places in the
world where you can mutilate an animal and then self-righteously feel
good about having "solved a problem".

| I'd sure do that before euthanasia, and I am NOT a fan of declawing.

Please stop with the politically correct disclaimers. Declawing "came
to mind" for you. You actually considered it, instead of finding the
very idea viscerally repulsive - which is what it takes not to be a fan.
You are a sympathizer, a fellow traveler.

Would you rather kill the cat? Have it put to sleep? Have it take that
"final trip to the vet" as the poster mentioned???


| We had to do this to Booger for similar reasons.

That's what they all say. Try something original.

If you bother to google my past posts to usenet, you will find me among
the rabid anti-declawing people actually, until this:

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bleys/Dyson1yScrtch.jpg

I had this sudden insight that my nephew's eyes were more important than
a surgery that did not matter to a cat that would be kept indoors for
life, and had been far too eager to use his claws in the past! This was
one bitchy episode too many. Sorry, but this cat DESERVED to be declawed
and so did the one I posted about!

I admit, it is a LAST RESORT to declaw any cat, but sometimes it's for
the best.

K.
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