These are photos of cats taken at a veterinary hospital on the morning following declaw surgeries.
The small photos are thumbnails. Please click on them for larger images and captions.
In the second picture, particularly, it is clear from the cat's fearful posture that the cat is suffering badly.
The calico in the bloody cage was declawed because her owner's condo required it, and even though she had seen her older cat go through this and didn't want to do it, she chose to do it anyway rather than adopting an already declawed cat.
Associated Pages:
Pain Management for Declawed Cats
The Agonising Pain Suffered by Declawed Cats
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I don’t see how someone could love an unfeeling piece of stupid furniture over the health and well being of a living being. Tamara should have bought an aquarium with fish instead of cats. She dosen’t love her cats at all–certainly not as much as her stupid furniture, selfishly taking away her cats’ claws and bones. Maybe her cats are sort of OK for now, but what about years down the road? I have leather furniture–cats don’t bother it at all. Our cats have an outdoor run with real logs for them to strop their claws on for the exercise they require, and they get their nails trimmed by me every 2 weeks or so. Tamara is also just lazy, and didn’t want to take 5 minutes of her precious time to trim her cats’ nails.
WHY de claw your cat. So you have kids that rip things to shreds you DON’T declaw them. I’ve got five kids that are the best in the world, MY cats have been TAUGHT NOT to scratch furniture and people.
PS the kids were taught the same principle.
PPS all my kids are lefties as are my cats, but I never taught them to be lefties.
SO NO TO DECLAWING CATS IT IS BARBARIC.
Thank you for commenting, Diane. I completely agree with your course. It is barbaric. It is completely unethical. It is shocking to me that almost all the veterinarians in America declaw cats against their oath and the ethics of their profession because it is invariably done for nontherapeutic reasons. It is bizarre that this practice carries on and is deemed legal when actually it is the brutal mutilation of innocent animals.
and more……
another dose of the truth for you Barbara
A small example
Doing my best to post a photo.
But, no luck.
Stumped. Resized, tried a differnt browser. Nothing works.
Dee, it was too large. You’ll have to resize it. If you are struggling, email me it and I’ll do it for you.
Here is the picture.
lol what a wonderful couch 😉
Yes it is just an inanimate unfeeling piece of furniture and it’s replaceable, cats toe ends are irreplaceable.
It does have a bit of charm.
I have 2 other pieces just as charming.
I posted that pic for Barbara and her claw complaints. Maybe she has a match to show.
It does have a bit of charm.
I have 2 other pieces just as charming.
I posted that pic for Barbara and her claw complaints. Maybe she has a match to show.
Dee I absolutely love your furniture, it just oozes care and understanding of cats and what they need to do, I’d have this any day rather than a showroom perfect suite and crippled cats. xx
LOL!
Right down to the wood where they really wanted to be anyway!
Out with the old and in with a new scheme that may last a little longer.
Will be tossing these pieces out on the deck for the enjoyment of others.
Do I care? HELL NO!!!
I’m here as Babz so I don’t get confused with Barbara! Dee you are a star, I love your sentiments as well as your furniture, it’s cats that are important, not what you sit upon.
Yes we don’t want our kind, compassionate, true cat lover and anti declaw advocate Barbara, confused with the other Barbara who is sadly lacking in knowledge about the cruelty of declawing.
Dear Taz and Ridiculous. You can’t post opposing views on this site without getting criticized. My cats have their claws only because I didn’t know enough to get it done when I found these two 5 week old kittens abandoned under my porch several years ago. Yes to the person that says cats don’t scratch woodwork, they certainly do. Every single doorway in the house although the male also chews so nothing is safe anyway and no I wouldn’t have his teeth pulled out. I think it’s not a good idea to declaw 6 yr old cats so it won’t be done to these 2. I spent a lot of time taking them to their scratching post, which are everywhere, hanging ones, standing one, etc. They use the scratching posts as well as all woodwork, all rugs and all furniture.
What gets me about this group is they turn a blind eye to the surgery that cuts the cats open and removes their reproductive parts because they agree with that “mutilation for human convenience” so they don’t have to keep their cats inside and put up with the inconvenience of making sure their cats don’t reproduce twice a year, or the spraying that male cats will do to mark their territory. Substitute spaying and neutering in place of every emotional response to declawing and you will see what I mean. My cats are fixed and remain inside at all times. I love them any way, but just wish they were declawed.
Now I will sit back and wait for the hysterical responses to what I just said. I just want you to know you are not monsters and many intelligent people agree with you.
Barbara. I own the site and I accept views that are different to mine. I like alternative viewpoints. Yes, you might get criticised but it will be polite (I hope) and the counter argument will be sound. Neutering for the female is a serious operation but there is a good reason for it which benefits the cats whereas there is no benefit for the cat when declawed. It is the opposite, lots of pain, often complications and sometimes permanent pain and arthritis and all manner of complications.
It is about what is ethical and what is right for the cat. It is about respecting the cat. Declawing does not meet these goals.
No hysteria here, Barbara.
I admire your honestly on this subject that is so under fire these days.
I doubt that your home is much different from mine. Regardless of scratching posts at every turn, my woodwork and furniture have taken a real beating. My curtains are scaled daily, mini blinds crashed to the floor long ago, and anything shredable is shredded.
But, they are only things that are replaceable. My cats’ claws aren’t. When I throw everything on the scale, the living entities outweigh the inanimate objects.
Example
Dee, I have uploaded it. It worked for me so not sure why it didn’t work for you. As you say the image size is good so it should upload.
https://pictures-of-cats.org/recently-declawed-cat-pictures.html#comment-442384
Neutering is not for human convenience, declawing IS!
An un-neutered tom cat feels frustrated if he can’t find a mate, also his urine smells very strong, he will travel miles to find a female in heat. He will get into fights with other tom cats and end up with injuries, that’s if he doesn’t get run over or someone harms him because he is being a pest, spraying wherever he goes and howling for a mate.
An un-neutered female will come constantly into heat and if she isn’t mated she will more than likely develop problems in her uterus and/or mammary glands. If she is mated, then she will bring more unwanted kittens into a world where many kittens and cats are being killed daily for lack of homes.
So you see neutering is GOOD!
Now declawing, it is major surgery no matter whatever the method the butcher masquerading as a vet doing it uses, it disables cats for life and causes them many physical and mental problems.
You don’t have to believe us, you can have it confirmed by the Paw Project vets who are repairing the mutilated paws of as many suffering cats as they can. Paws mutilated by vets who break their oath to cause no animal to suffer….declawing causes lifelong suffering, make no mistake about that!