DECLAWING, DEFINGERING, NO DIFFERENCE

Not sure why you would post as “anonymous” if you intend to have a debate..but anyway.

Laser declawing , in some respects, is actually more dangerous than other methods. First of all, very few vets are adept at the procedure. It is not covered in vet school, and the training they receive from the company that makes the laser is minimal at best. The use of this tool must be accurate…or there can be serious injury involved.

I dont know if you have ever seen the 4th degree burns that a laser can cause, but I have, and it is horribly painful for the cat. It increases the risk of post-operative infection, and causes permanent scarring and disfigurement.

Laser, guiolltine, or scalpel….you CANNOT declaw with love or kindness.

Good one Steve R ! I love your comment.
Anonymous is one of those people who thinks it’s acceptable and not as barbaric for cats finger ends to be burnt off but when it comes to themselves it’s a different story.

https://pictures-of-cats.org/declawing-defingering-one-difference.html

Ok, Anonymous – I can get a 1 Kw CO2 laser from the lab. Why don’t you stop by and we can remove the last joint of each of your fingers? Since it’s so humane, you won’t need anesthesia and we can do the whole operation from the back of my car (we may need some volunteers to hold you down, though). I have some gauze, and you should be back typing, driving, eating, using the TV remote by tomorrow with no pain whatsoever.

Whichever method it doesn’t matter to the vets they still get their blood money!

Anonymous you totally miss the point!! Even if there was a pain free method its still the most obscene disgusting practice. What right thinking person would happily remove a cats claws? Thank God I don’t know anyone personally who would do this because if I did I know I wouldn’t be responsible for my actions!

First and foremost a cat needs claws for defence! I don’t care if the cat is a house cat he can still get out & you can still have intruders!

What about grooming? A cat needs to groom! The fur lies flat to keep him cool in the summer and flat to keep warm in the winter.

Said already; cats need claws for resistance, to exercise their muscles.

So anonymous, you don’t care one bit about how the cat feels do you? You don’t care that you’ve taken so much out of his life so much that’s essential for a happy healthy existence, all you care about is that you don’t have to worry about those pesky claws getting into your furniture!!!

You and all others that think this is acceptable are just selfish to the core. Think about it…..

A very good point from Clare on facebook who writes:

There IS one difference, I think. A declawed cat’s entire body is affected, not just its fingertips.

She’s RIGHT….another article to follow when I’ve done some research on human digit amputees.

Declawing, defingering, one BIG difference

Declawing, when performed by laser, is still the amputation of the last toe bone of the cat and carries with it the same long-term risks of lameness and behavioral problems as does declawing with scalpels or clippers. Studies have failed to show that laser declawing is less painful for the cat in the post-operative period.

You state declawing is wrong but then go on to spread a load of b*** s*** about laser declawing not being as barbaric because it doesn’t remove the first knuckle.
You say ‘they’ use lasers.
Well no ‘they’ don’t, not all of them.
A laser is a very intricate tool which is costly and which vets are supposed to learn how to use properly.
Money hungry vets lop off the cats finger ends any was they choose and as someone already commented the ones who do use your ‘wonderful’ laser not only cripple the cat but often leave it with burns too.

Get your facts right please!

Wonderful article, Ruth! As always, I love your poster. Posters like that need to be printed off and stuck up in vet clinics!

Anyone who spends time with their cat will realise how important claws are to cats. Claws are used in everything a cat does. Just as fingers are used in everything a person does.

Anonymous, tell me, how does using a laser mean that the finger is not removed? You are ignorant beyond belief. The difference is that the finger is being burnt off, rather than sliced off. Burning versus slicing? Forgive me, I need you to elaborate on how burning a cat’s finger off, instead of slicing it off, justifies declawing.

And today’s is anonymous who although against declawing believes that lasering isn’t as barbaric.
Another who has swallowed the lie and is now trying to pass it on.
Lasering causes less bleeding and quicker healing of the wounds but the cat is still as crippled for life!
Oh and BTW sometimes suffers from scorched flesh and bone of the paws too.

Well now anonymous you have the chance to spread the truth,so come on ……………..

There is only one way to declaw a cat and that is by amputating the last finger joint whether by scalpel, guillotine or laser.
It’s a myth that laser declawing ‘just’ removes the claw. I have that on good authority from Dr Jean Hofve DVM who is an expert on the subject. It’s written somewhere here on PoC exactly what she said. I can’t think right now which page it’s on but I will find it !
Each claw is firmly embedded into bone and if the whole joint is not removed, claw cells remain and claws regrow crookedly. Cats then suffer pain and have to go through surgery again.
Please go to Jean’s ‘Little Big Cat’ web site and look up declawing on there because it’s false information like you have given which makes this cruel surgery sound acceptable (although for the life of me I can’t think how anyone can find even ‘just’ removing the claw acceptable) to people who are too ignorant or lazy to research declawing properly for themselves.

Ruth, as always you have presented an excellent piece. Thank you for all you do for cats!

The collage is excellent and very informative.

But… I am sitting here, still scratching my head.. wondering why anonymous thinks that laser declaw is not removing the joint? This is just not true. Both the “wire cutter” method and laser removes the first joint because the claw is part of the bone. And BOTH are one of the most painful surgeries that anyone can impose upon an animal they profess to love!! SIGH..

but that poster does show an outdated practice. now they use lasers and do not remove any of the “finger”

this doesnt make it a better practice but it isnt as barbaric as removing the first knuckle.

Another fantastic poster that doesn’t really need the words underneath.
Great job Ruth.

I agree with Barbara and Lene that people who de-claw cats are evil and that it is animal abuse.

Anyone looking at the pictures in the poster can see that de-clawing IS de-fingering.

This poster should be hung in every animal doctors surgery in every country where de-clawing is legal.

Declawing is animalabuse, i really feel sorry for the cats who has so awefull owners who will do that to them, i am ashemed of the human kind….

Right on the nail again Ruth,tiny feline toes have a lot to do and they need the claws they were born with to so it – if they didn’t they wouldn’t be born with them. I’ve tried and tried to understand the minds of people who think it’s acceptable to take in a perfectly healthy cat and reduce her to a cripple by hewing her toes off just to make her fit into their home but there is no way I will ever understand it. Those who want it done and those who do it, for money, are evil.