It’s gotta be greed. As a vet, even though things may be tough you can still make some pretty decent money compared to others and even if you lose some if you don’t declaw surely the moral question makes that an easy choice to make.

I honestly think that some of them don’t think its bad and they simply don’t have feelings or compassion for animals. Why the f**k did they become vets then? Why oh why do people who don’t care about animals end up working with them and having enormous power over them? What goes wrong. When do they start thinking it doesn’t matter and the cat will be fine so just do it… It’s a tragedy. Furthermore if the rest of the world except Canada can make such a thing illegal and considered as abuse what the hell do they think they are doing in the face of all that except behaving like total a**h*les who should be ashamed of themselves. Its all based of the simple fact that so far the average north american has no idea that it’s evil so the vets use the fact. Probably people over here don’t know about it either but I guess our government and vets, in this instance, are more trustworthy. If in the US the vets and goevernment allow such a thing to carry one then what else are they doing? I’d be worried. It just shows a low standard of animal welfare. I know that genetic engineering and all that is still allowed over there and that concerns human beings. How can you trust your government to have your best interests in mind when they continue to allow you to be fed awful low quality and dangerous food when in the rest of the developed world its is illegal. Again, based on not informing the public I suppose. It’s a scandal for both humans and animals alike. I have little hope. Living in Canada that was something that truly frightened me. The fact that alot of the fruit and veg out there is produced with pure profit in mind to the point of it being unhealthy and the government does nothing to defend you and prevent it. I’d stick to certified organic out there if I didn’t know for sure about the other stuff.

You have to also appreciate that the US has it’s own ideas and kind of doesn’t care what anybody else thinks. It’s gonna do what its’ gonna do and for as long as the general populous doesnt know much about anything then those in power can keep raking the dollars. I’m not saying it isn’t like that everywhere else in some way but here in Switzerland even the cheapest food has standards and they are advertised clearly on the box. Its a bit less cheap actually. But animal welfare here is much better. The cheapest eggs don’t come from chickens who live in boxes and eat their own poop. I for one feel pretty much like I can count on the government here making sure nothing too awful is happening when it comes to stuff I am not informed about. You can’t know about everything. But in Canada I did not feel like that at all. It felt entirely corrupted the whole system of capitalist democracy over there. You kind of feel like they would let you eat your own poop if they could save a buck out there and so when it cpomes to animals it shudder to think what goes on. Here animal welfare is good. I will admit Switzerland does have one a**h*le of a company Nestle who intact own a bunch of pet food brands. However as much as I wouldn’t trust them on the end of a barge pole I know that they can’t get away with stuff here because the government just won’t let them. I bet they lower the standards wherever they can though.

The whole issue of declawing in North America is scandalous and internationally antisocial and its just another thing that would and should make it’s own people extremely angry and untrustful of it’s own authorities. I bet there are other similar scandals in other proffessions and moral issues that are just the same over there. It’s the new kind of corruption is what it is. I prefer the system in Russia where you just pay your baksheesh and nobody is pretending it isn’t so nobody is ignorant. Better than making everything look pretty for as long as it is physically possible to not let people know what is really happening.

People think that no one acting in a professional capacity, especially in a helping profession, would do anything to harm their clients. Oh, there are certainly some individuals who are incompetent or dishonest, but there couldn’t be widespread actions by a professional group that are harmful to clients. Many who are against declawing say that it’s fine so long as you have a good vet. Some vets are butchers and botch the job, but if there was anything inherently wrong with declawing the AVMA would condemn it in every instance. The veterinary profession wouldn’t allow it at all if it was harmful.
The problem is that the above, though believed by most people, is untrue. Professions can be corrupted. School teachers come to care more about protecting their pay and benefits than about children and illegally go on strike– compromising the education of the children placed in their care. Some teachers deplore these tactics, but they are widespread. Can’t we trust teachers to put their students first? Not always. I left one school back in my teaching days because the teachers bad mouthed students in the faculty lounge all the time. It was unprofessional and unethical behavior, so widespread in that school that I could no longer work there.
Physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists– all these professions are filled with individuals who routinely commit Medicare fraud. Companies require very high productivity standards– require therapists to bill for more therapy than is really needed. This doesn’t benefit patients and it bilks taxpayers out of millions of dollars every year. As a physical therapist assistant working for a staffing agency, I’m losing a lot of money by refusing to work for companies with unethical billing practices. But I have to do what’s right.Recent changes to Medicare hurt seniors, I believe, but they were necessary to counter all the fraud. It’s bad enough and widespread enough that sometimes I regret becoming a PTA.
Name the profession and I’ll bet you can find ethical problems with it– widespread problems– not just the occasional bad or incompetent person. The only way change happens is from the inside. Sometimes that even means leaving a profession or a job. It’s up to vets and vet techs to confront the atrocity of declawing. In the meantime I have very little respect for the veterinary profession. So long as they defend declawing they will never have the best people entering that field. Anyone with ethics (or a heart) will steer clear. There are a few good vets who fight against declawing, but there aren’t enough of them.