What affects us affects cats
by Ruth (England) Declawed cat suffering in a small cage. I was given permission to use the photo above of a recently declawed cat, with the condition I don’t give details of who is allowing it. The photo is harrowing and I’ve cried buckets for that cat but we need to look and see …
by Ruth (UK) Looking at the selection of cats in a typical Rescue Shelter, some of the reasons given by the people who relinquished them to the Shelter seem reasonable enough. Messing out of the litterbox, biting, fearful, child’s allergy to cats all seem good enough excuses. Although always having kittens and kittens unable …
by Ruth (England) Pierce Pierce is one of 51 declawed kittens up for adoption in Rescue Shelters in Ohio. He is offered as neutered, vaccinated, house trained and declawed. No explanation is given for him being in the Shelter but as he is house trained it seems obvious that someone gave him a home, …
by Ruth Y. (West Allis, Wisconsin) Monty using his beautiful claws. (Sorry for the blurry photo, he’s a fast moving target!) There are many good reasons to be against declawing, but the most persuasive are perhaps those which deal with the changes in a cat’s functional mobility and the potential for arthritis later in …
By Ruth aka Kattaddorra This came as a Google Alert….”My 5 month old kittens were just fixed and declawed on Tuesday. I got them back on Wednesday. The male is almost completely back to normal already – you wouldn’t even know he had it done (other than a lot of meowing which he seems …
by Elisa Black-Taylor (USA) Cocoa in the linen hutch This is how Cocoa sleeps My poor rescued cat Cocoa is toothless and declawed! Readers, I hope I can write this without breaking anything nearby or having another crying fit. Please start by reading yesterdays story here. 25th April 2011: Urgent Notice: Cocoa will not …
by Michael (London, UK) Photo by Bekah Stargazing (Flickr) A vet has kindly listed the complications of declawing cats. This was not done for any altruistic reason. It is simply a dispassionate explanation, which in itself speaks volumes of the attitude of veterinarians to declawing cats in the USA. This page, then simply represents …
by Michael (London, UK) Declawing cats is back on the PoC menu! I am going to take the unusual step of criticising a journalist, Shari Lynn Rothstein-Kramer, about her narrow minded and unenlightened views on declawing cats. Before I do that I would like to praise PetSmart. PetSmart have an adopt-a-pet section in their …
