What affects us affects cats
Recently there has been a spate of comments on declawing discussions, that there is a new way to declaw cats by laser, which doesn’t involve amputating any bone. This is untrue! One person said that she had been told that it was a wonderful new and to be recommended procedure which only lasered away …
Although so much more is now known about the consequences of declawing a cat, many American vets still continue to perform the surgery. The information from Paw Project Utah that many cats have suffered from a botched declawing and have fragments of bone in their paws is horrifying. Their latest case is Davis who …
If you understand the declawing of cats it makes sense but if you don’t you’d have difficulty in believing it but 38% of declawed cats have issues with their walking. Yes, the way declawed cats walk is affected for life and it affects their mobility and levels of contentment too. Wouldn’t you be pissed …
This is a printable essay on declawing cats for students, which is free to be used as you wish under a creative commons license. The declawing of cats is a controversial topic. It goes to the heart of our relationship with the domestic cat. For that reason it is an important topic. This essay …
Introduction: this is a repost of a Paw Project-Utah newsletter. The objective is to spread the word about Paw Project-Utah and the excellent work they do while also providing updating information about Mollie a declawed cat and general information on caring for declawed cats. Good reasons to repost the newsletter. By Kirsten Doub, DVMRecently, Dr. Doub had …
Declawing does not exist! There is no way to remove a cat’s claws, because each claw is embedded in bone. We should call it what it is: deboning, detoeing or defingering. Any of those terms describe the amputation of each last phalanx of a cat’s paws. Yet we call it declawing! The person who …
Dr. Doub has checked Mollie’s x-rays and confirmed that Mollie has no bone fragments in her paws. Great news. But the evaluation is not yet complete. This is what Carla Krebs of Paws Needs Claws says to Tina: Dr. Doub has received the xray image of Mollie’s xrayed paws and from what she can …
Wouldn’t it be miraculous if one day in the near future, those of us who love cats and who truly understand the domestic feline’s nature, and their needs, wake up one morning to hear the long-awaited and joyful news that declawing cats in the United States and Canada has finally been banned? Although we …
