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!
Thank you for commenting Jennifer, it’s good to hear from someone with first hand experience of seeing declawing and well done for giving up that first job!
Our vets never declawed even before it was illegal here, I worked as a vet nurse all my working life and only once were we asked by a client about having her cat declawed. I’d never even heard of it, but if the vet had agreed I’d have walked out there and then and took that cat with me.
Here in the UK most people are shocked and horrified at the very thought and that’s even before they know it’s not ‘only the claws’ removed, it’s the amputation of the cat’s toe ends.
I think we in the UK have difficulty understanding why anyone would want to have a cat without claws, yes it’s the vets who do it who are mostly to blame but the cats caretaker has to take some responsibility for not finding out exactly what declawing means before handing their cat over.
I am from the USA, all American. I am also an Animal Technician but I gave that up to become the Photographer that I am now. I quit my first job as a tech because of this procedure and went to work for a vet that didn’t offer torture as a service. I was much happier then. I have seen this procedure and it’s more than awful, it’s disgusting. I can tell you that it is not as common today in the USA as it once was and as people become more aware of what actually happens during a declaw, I suspect there will be less procedures done. It’s about educating people. You would be surprised at how many people who have had their cats declawed had no idea how brutal this procedure is. We get shielded here too much and its common place to sugar coat things to make people feel better. Youtube is changing that for everyone thank goodness because we need to see what we are doing in all areas of life, how does a person make an educated decision about something when they are only given the facts that someone wishes for them to hear? I know that there will always be heartless people still out there but for the majority, once this procedure is explained in its entirety, they would never want to put their animals through it. That’s my two cents.
So many questions Ruth and I wish I had all the answers lets hope Michael gets some responses when he interviews de-clawing vets but how he will hold it together God only knows because I couldn’t.
It breaks my heart every time and makes me want to do physical harm to the vets that maim cats day in day out and Lord help the vet that de-clawed a cat of mine by accident I wouldn’t rest until I had exacted just retribution!
Ruth a brilliant poster yet again
Thanks Leah. No I couldn’t have a calm conversation with a declaw vet either, I’d want to hurt him/her as much as they hurt the cats they cripple.
I don’t think any will agree to being interviewed face to face by a genuine kind man like Michael, they are just cowards who know the cats they mutilate can’t fight back.
I know, Ruth makes me so so angry!!!
I agree – it’s cruel.
People make choices in life.
Some think it only matters how they look and seem – and they will lie and make imoral choices.
Others realize that you can’t hide who y0ou really are because it comes back and bites you. These people try to make the right choices even in private.
The ego has become the self in modern day. That is why we are so emotionally stunted and confused as humans. We are not taught values the right way or for the right reasons. Clearly. Otherwise we’d be alot nicer to animals just for a start.
And vets would never declaw for non health reasons.
A vet who does choose to do this probably rationalizes is with some argument about that cat being saved from death because of the declaw. Of course the vet who goes the evil route will lie first and foremost to himself because he likely won’t think he is bad. But he doesn’t know why he feels bad ad why his wife left him and he got a flat tire on the way home. And one day something far worse like a serious accident. That’s how consequence works. I won’t say karma because its too loaded and people associate it with strange people – and they are wrong – karma is just a simple word meaning consequence. Life is consequence.
The declaw vet is unhappy about alot of things and that’s because consequence does exist.
Yes Karma (consequence ) exists but it doesn’t undo the evil done by the person who did it, those declaw vets being punished wouldn’t give the cats they mutilated their toe ends back, it’s too late. We have to stop them doing it!
exactly right couldnt of said it any better i hope that those declaw vets come to some bad karma at some stage in their life or their conscience bites them.
Yep same here in totally agreement as always love your posters so much 🙂
Thank you Kylee x
Sing it, Sister!
I, and many, are behind you.
A long day for me but will try to keep up here.
Yes my sister 🙂
We will keep on singing it at the tops of our voices until our song is heard
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.
Thank you Michael, yes my article/poster were based on there being so many ‘believers’ in the USA. I can’t come to terms with how any declaw vets can profess to be Christians yet mutilate the living feeling creatures ‘their God’ created.
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.
Yes I too hope Karma catches up with them, they are supposed to have trained to help animals, not to please people, or to make money by causing cats to suffer 🙁
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!
Well said Jo
Anyone who has studied feline anatomy knows full well that declawing harms cats, if declaw vets lie to themselves and pretend that it doesn’t then they are stupid as well as evil. Yes St Peter should spit in their faces and damn then for eternity.