DECLAWING DOUBLE STANDARDS

You know something Ruth I never thought of that either they disguise the fact that its major surgery with spaying or neutering how dammed treacherous the vets are aren’t they?

Something else struck me when you wrote ‘and of course de-clawing’ because that’s what’s known a presumtive selling and seems to me they are getting better at it, you see when I was a mortgage adviser we used it however because we were regulated it was genuinely for the good of the client. Its basically when you don’t give someone the opportunity to say no; you just presume they accept everything you’re selling.

So yes that’s what it appears to be; they say ‘and of course you’ll need this’ so its just accepted however you’re right it should be questioned because why would you hand your cat over without knowing exactly what’s going to happen.

Another great poster and article Ruth and so very true!
The words coming out of that vets mouth “oh and declawing of course” which makes it sound like it’s something that should be done to cats,without question.
I think young people are questioning more these days and good for them.
It’s stupid and selfish to take what a vet tells you as gospel,have some people no minds of their own to think about why a cat has claws and if they have to be removed why not dogs too?
I’d love to have seen the expressions on those cartoon parents faces if the vet had said the dog should be declawed,they’d not have been smiling and saying it sounded good.
Huh I get so annoyed at people with different standards for cats and for dogs!

Great points in there, Ruth! Why is declawing a dog such an abhorrent thought, but declawing a cat is promoted and encouraged? I would never declaw my dog, I would never declaw my guinea pigs, and if sheep had claws, I wouldn’t declaw them either! So why would I declaw my cat? It makes no sense! Vets are hypocrites, and cat ‘owners’ who agree to have their cats declawed are gullible, ignorant and selfish.

The meaning of DE clawing is so obvious even to a child that it’s taking the claws.
I can’t get my head around anyone agreeing to it.
Yes it’s double standards alright and yes dogs bite and they scratch too especially as puppies.
I wonder if Toby’s mom would have stil thought it sounded good had that vet advised declawing the dog!
I doubt it!

What a good description!
Maybe that’s why declaw vets love to promote their neuter/declaw packages, they can then disguise the fact that declawing is as major a surgery as neutering is. In fact much more major surgery for a male cat! A female cat soon recovers from being spayed, much sooner than from ten amputations.
But even so they sell it together by saying it’s better than having two anaethetics, so surely the client is in no doubt that it IS more than a manicure!

You are right Michael, vets don’t advise a dog’s teeth are removed just incase he bites and we do quite often hear of people especially children, seriously injured by dogs.

Dogs claws can do a lot more damage than a cats claws. Our own late mother had very thin skin due to steroid treatment yet her 4 cats and others she used to feed too caused her no injuries at all.

But a neighbour’s dog jumped at her and tore the skin on her arm with his claws and it never did heal up.

Well of course, I’d never thought of that Ruth, how can anyone pretend to think they’ve booked a kitty-manicure when they have to sign a consent form for a general anaesthetic?!? It’s just a damn excuse to shift the blame onto the vet, who also deserves heaps of blame for not educating against declawing instead of cashing in on ignorance and selfishness and making piles of blood stained dollars.

Double standards do exist, somehow dogs claws are seen as necessary and normal (if they are even thought about) whereas cats’ claws are considered a nuisance and disposable. It’s sickening.

I’d love to know why vets are biased against cats with respect to these routine procedures.

I can only assume that a cat’s claws are sharper than a dog’s claws and a cat uses his or her claws as a defence. But then a dog uses his teeth as a defense and vets don’t detooth dogs.

There are many instances of dogs biting people and causing serious injuries. No one talks about surgery on dogs to deal with that.

Definitely double standards and the cat is the victim.