Why do people think declawing a cat is inhumane but neutering is not? Isn’t neutering more painful?

63 jurisdictions ban cat declawing as at Dec 2023

Well, it is a question that of often asked. But the answer is clear and to be honest obvious. Neutering is necessary sadly as without sterilising domestic cats there would be even more homeless cats, more misery and more shelter killings. Declawing is entirely unnecessary as there are alternative ways. Also declawing can cause …

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Assisted dying of people and pets (slippery slope)

Tom Rhind-Tutt

This is about the euthanasia of companion animals versus assisted dying of people and that all important slippery slope. There’s an interesting article online today (The Telegraph) about an excellent veterinarian who loved his work (and still does to a certain extent) who it appears to me became somewhat disillusioned because he was asked …

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Ready to de-clutter your wardrobe? Ready to get rid of your cat? Use Vinted!

Zara McDermott distraught at the advert on Vinted selling a tortie cat for 130 pounds

NEWS AND OPINION: Vinted is an app-based website through which you can de-clutter your wardrobe and get rid of those clothes you no longer want. In the modern world, clothes have quite a short lifespan. In the old days, days gone by, we kept clothes until they wore out and then we repaired them! …

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PETA push for full-time indoor cats by highlighting outdoor cat cruelty cases. This is half the story, though.

Keeping cats indoors is good for safety but there needs to be a concomitant effort to make their substitute indoor world interesting

It seems that PETA are campaigning for more full-time indoor cats because of a ‘plague’ of ‘poisonings, shootings, burnings, and beatings’ of outdoor cats across the US. They want to abolish the concept of indoor-outdoor cats because it leads to animal cruelty. The quotes below and their video explains. I can’t watch these videos …

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Iranian man sentenced to prison for ‘threatening public health by keeping a cat’ and one other offence

Niloufar Ghazaleh and Mohammad Ali Moghimi from the Isfahan province and their cat

NEWS AND OPINION – Isfahan, Iran: The remarkable headline comes from my interpretation of a story from the website Iran Wire. It hasn’t been well reported but this story highlights the enormous clash of culture between Iran and the West. It concerns a couple Niloufar Ghazaleh and Mohammad Ali Moghimi, living in Isfahan. The …

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