How do vets who routinely declaw cats, sleep at night? Do they go home to their families and family pets and forget about the cats they have deliberately mutilated that day?
Those cats they left to wake up in pain and shock from unnecessary cruel surgery, some crying and throwing themselves around, some hunching in the corner of their recovery cage in despair.
Those poor innocent cats whose lives those vets know they have ruined by the amputation of their toe ends. Ten (or even eighteen sometimes) amputations, not only to please clients who are too lazy to teach their cats to use a scratching post, but also to make money.
Are none of those vets religious? Do they not fear their ‘Judgement Day’ if Saint Peter is on duty at the Pearly Gates with their individual ‘book of life’ in his hands when they leave this world?
Surely every single one of those vets who declaw can’t think that only oblivion follows this life. But whether it does or it doesn’t, how can they live their lives whilst breaking their sworn oath to cause no animal to suffer? Declawing causes cats to suffer, there is no way anyone who has studied veterinary medicine can deny that.
What do those declaw vets think of their colleagues who refuse to declaw? Do they scorn them? Do they think they are foolish to pass up the opportunity to make easy dollars daily? When they instruct their staff to offer declawing when a client books their cat in for neutering, do they feel no remorse that they are encouraging that client to have their pet disabled?
What about when they ‘mistakenly’ declaw someone’s cat who didn’t agree to have it done along with neutering and yes it does happen, those vets are so desperate to declaw all cats that they simply apologise and convince the client it was better to have their cat declawed.
Why has no client ever taken their vet to court when this happens? I suppose they think the vet knows best and they don’t want to cause trouble and anyway the way the vet explained it, declawing was a good thing to do.
Some vets persuade clients by saying it’s better to have the neutering/declawing done under the same anaesthetic while the cat is young, than the cat to need declawing later.
NEED declawing? No cat NEEDS declawing!
I’m very glad to see The Paw Project is starting to have no declaw vets heading teams of anti declaw people in more cities now, education on this is steadily growing, the Paw Project video is being screened far and wide.
Let’s hope that the conscience of vets who are still declawing (and there are many) begins to prick and let’s hope they realise they only have one chance in life, there could be retribution for sinning on this earth.
Declawing cats is a sin. Saint Peter could be waiting with their ‘book of life’. I hope he is!
Yep same here in totally agreement as always love your posters so much 🙂
Sing it, Sister!
I, and many, are behind you.
A long day for me but will try to keep up here.
A really strong poster again, Ruth. I like the way you have brought in the Christian faith into the argument this time. That is a nice approach, I think, because a lot of people in America have Christian beliefs. Many Americans have very strong Christian beliefs in fact. I’m sure many of them approve of cat declawing. This is an anomaly and a contradiction. I hope many of them read your article and I hope your poster leaves an impression on their minds.
Even if a veterinarian is not a religious person, they should have high moral standards which should guide him or her and, as you say, if he or she is in breach of those standards it should make him feel uneasy.
One aspect of declawing that we have not addressed that often is what student veterinarians are taught at medical school. Medical school would be a great place to inculcate the correct mentality but clearly they either ignore declawing as an operation that is in breach of their oath or they simply teach the procedure without any reference to its morality.
Well said Jo
Yes, a very good question how DO vets who rob cats of vital and healthy body parts sleep at night? How do they justify the pain and bloodshed to themselves, do they secretly know that what they do is wrong or are they full of self righteousness thinking they are doing their clients a favour by using their skills to remove those nasty claws? You ask a very good question Ruth, do they have no conscience? Does the suffering of a newly declawed cat leave them cold, does seeing a cat in pain not upset them, does denying pain relief because the cat’s guardian refuses to pay for it seem justifiable to the declawing vet? I can’t in any way put myself into the mind set of vets who hurt, rather than heal, cats, I don’t believe there is any justification, ever, for declawing a cat, I hope those vets that believe that they are doing a service when they declaw a cat either achieve enlightenment and stop declawing and begin to promote education against it, or failing that I hope karma catches up with them and teaches them a harsh lesson.
Ruth,
I cannot agree with you more strongly. This is one of the highest degrees of sin. Veterinarians take an oath to “do no harm”- however this surgery does incredible harm to cats. It is barbaric- plain and simple. What is even more harmful are the “lies” that are told to clients- “it’s best to do it now when they are young and under anesthesia for neutering/spaying”. “This procedure doesn’t harm a cat”, and what’s worse is some veterinarians actually believe their own lies. They have NO idea about feline nature- nor do they care.
St. Peter should spit in their faces to be perfectly honest…. in my opinion!