DECLAW VETS ARE WRONG

Another great article Ruth, I applaud you for the tremendous effort you put into educating people on the truth about declawing.

It’s a cruel irony that it was the refusal of vets in numerous countries to perform declawing which brought about legal bans. Yet in North America it’s the vets who’re actively promoting this form of animal abuse.

I know that thankfully there are vets in North America who refuse to declaw, but I wish that more of them would stand up and be counted. I’m sure if they voiced the reasons they won’t declaw that it would help raise awareness amongst the pubic. Too often the fact that declawing is banned in 38 countries is swept aside, as though the opinion of foreign vets on this subject is somehow irrelevant to North American cats.

For far too long, the public have been denied the truth about declawing, but your articles are making great headway into changing that. Those unscrupulous vets are soon going to find that clients are better informed and more likely to ask akward questions than before.

Keep up the great work.

Another great article Ruth, I applaud you for the tremendous effort you put into educating people on the truth about declawing.

It’s a cruel irony that it was the refusal of vets in numerous countries to perform declawing which brought about legal bans. Yet in North America it’s the vets who’re actively promoting this form of animal abuse.

I know that thankfully there are vets in North America who refuse to declaw, but I wish that more of them would stand up and be counted. I’m sure if they voiced the reasons they won’t declaw that it would help raise awareness amongst the pubic. Too often the fact that declawing is banned in 38 countries is swept aside, as though the opinion of foreign vets on this subject is somehow irrelevant to North American cats.

For far too long, the public have been denied the truth about declawing, but your articles are making great headway into changing that. Those unscrupulous vets are soon going to find that clients are better informed and more likely to ask akward questions than before.

Keep up the great work.

Thank you for your endless campaign to educate the whole of America.
This is another top class blog and poster.
My all time favorite of yours is Sebastian’s Diary which I’m still recommending people to read.
You need to get it off to a publisher so as to reach those with no internet

Man you did it again.Great poster.
Now people know how cruel declawing cats is the doctors like in the bottom picture will be well respected but the greedy ones like the one in the top can only be looked on with disgust.
How will they keep their bank balance topped up then?
Hopefully theyll just go out of business.
Ed

In fact this article could have been called EDUCATE DON’T MUTILATE
It’s truly great Ruth and yes your poster says it all.
If I was in the USA I’d be putting your posters up EVERYWHERE,they give such powerful messages that no one with a compassionate bone in their body could ignore.

Another poster that doesn’t actually need words underneath as it says it all.
Great work Ruth.
Oh for the day when everyone reacts like the man in Dr Ilovemoney’s clinic and finds another vet like Dr Ilovecats who will EDUCATE not MUTILATE (I stole that from someone’s comment on another page as it’s so apt)

Well done Ruthy. This is your best poster yet!
If I may give a personal view, I trained to be a nurse, and the first thing you learn is the anatomy and physiology of the human body. The second thing is that that patient comes first.
I know that vets take years to train too, and learn all they need to know the same as nurses, but about animals of course. There is no excsue for de-claewing a cat when the vet knows a trim of the claws will do. It is all about MONEY!
This is so evil to destroy an animal’s life for a few more bucks in their pocket!!!
Shame on all vets that do this. You should be named and shamed! How do you sleep at night?

Ruth yet again you’re bang on the mark with your poster and article, its seems obvious; why not educate?

I personally think the answer is simple vets know that most US pet keepers have become so indoctrinated by declawing over the years it just makes the vets job so much easier to offer declawing. They know if they educate they’ll be losing money so they don’t; they would rather just chop off those precious little toes.

I have 2 house cats as you know and to me their paws and claws are little miracles. I never tire of watching them use their claws to climb, stretch and play. They have scratching posts and a platform to jump onto. Because of this they rarely scratch the furniture but even if they did I wouldn’t care because unlike many people who declaw their cats I know that mine are happy and healthy.

I love my cats and even if it was legal here I would never ever consider declawing them.

Another great article and poster Ruth, I agree that the vets are the ones who have the earliest influence on new-kitten parents, it is at the first appointment that there is every opportunity to dicuss vaccination, worming, flea treatment and if necessary claw clipping (though why someone would acquire a cat in the full knowledge that cats have claws and then worry about the claws still puzzles me) They have the perfect opportunity to discuss the importance of the exercise that cats get from digging in and stretching their muscles and to explain that it’s not the cat trying to destroy the furniture but in fact very natural and necessary cat behaviour.

Some honourable vets do this of course and they do more, they explain that declawing is more than a kitty-manicure and that it is a dangerous and life changing procedure.

But some, like the chap we heard on the audio tape discussing the three methods of declawing and telling us he likes to use the scalpel method, are content to declaw on demand and to perpetuate the myth that declawing is taking only the claws and not part of the toes too. This is because of course they are dazzled by the mighty dollar and wish to get fat and live easily off blood money thrown at them by clients only too glad to have their cats mutilated.