Hello everyone at PoC. Sorry I haven’t written my diary for so many years, the time has flown by since I came to live with my new mom and dad.
For anyone who hasn’t read about me before, click here for the start of my diary. It has seven parts because I wrote it as things happened. Or you can see the whole diary here.
Then Muriel came along too. Like me, she is declawed and her paws are painful and we thought we would have to put up with it for the rest of our lives because we can never have our claws back.
We have a very kind vet who gives us medicine to help us but sometimes I feel like I am walking on broken glass. I asked Muriel if she did too and she said yes, her paws sometimes hurt so much she doesn’t like to walk about. We both try to shake the pain away but it doesn’t work.
But now we have exciting news which I want to share! Mom heard it through the shelter where she still takes food for the cats but she is too old to work there now ande said she can’t take any more heartbreak.
Some vets who are called The Paw Project are taking x-rays of as many declawed cats paws as they can and the results are very shocking! A lot of us have bits of sharp bone the vets left when they took our toe ends and claws away and as the years go by those bits of bone move about and hurt us. No wonder our Muriel and me are suffering!
Well our mom and dad say they are going to get our vet to x-ray our paws and see if we have bits of bone and then we might have to have an operation each. They haven’t got much money but they say they will even sell things to pay for us to have this done, they are very happy that all declawed cats are going to have the chance to have a better life.
Dad says he hopes the people who had their cats declawed think it will be money well spent but mom said ‘Honey a lot of declawed cats aren’t with their original family’. Just like Muriel and me who got put in the shelter when our families didn’t want us any more!
Muriel said ‘What shall we do Sebastian, I don’t want people to touch my paws, shall we run away?’ I think she is still traumatised from when she had to stay at a place like that and she got a needle and woke up with her claws gone, just like happened to me. I must say I’m not very much looking forward to it either but mom said if it will stop us being so much in pain it will be worth it.
We are happy here with mom and dad but it would be great to be able to walk about without our feet hurting.
Cheerio for now, I will let you know what happens if you like.
Sebastian
(With the help of Ruth aka Kattaddorra)
The posters and the message through the posters is brilliant.
Oh Sylvia.
I didn’t see that cougar picture of him dragging himself on his elbows.
It would have dropped me to my knees.
I agree that a class action should happen, and the compensation could be pro bono treatment for the mutilated.
What’s up with your computer that you have to visit the library?
Please explain, because someone may be able to help.
If you can’t get it running properly, I may have a solution.
Someone should commence a test case in the courts and sue a vet for breach of contract and/or misrepresentation – if he misrepresented the declawing process (a lot do) and if he left shards of bone in the paw.
Tried this once, Ruthie, & it didn’t transmit, so will try it again. Crikey..that photo on the PAWS Project website was too much: the cougar dragging himself around on his elbows. Have said it before and will again — unless cats are ‘chattel’ in the U.S., why don’t the lawyers commence class action suits against declawing vets? It should certainly throw cold water on their cash cow. Couldn’t they net a couple of thou. for a mutilated cat? Too bad there aren’t enough vets around to offer low-cost (preferably pro bono) x-rays to parents of cats.
Am headed out door to retrieve ten-twelve days of e-mail. xxx
-Dear Ruth,
THANK YOU FOR WRITING @ Sabastian’s Story__
__ I Have an unending supply of Alligator Tears__
___As any decent Human Being should__
___ God Bless You for creating his Journal & for the Deeply profound Honesty-from a Cat’s Point Of View. If you can find a reputable Agent then Publish or better yet self-publish-which means have a paperback made & self-sell-{ use it as a Testament story to protect cats from declawing & other abuses* Your small book might really make a big profit right now__as this is the TIME when some Groups in Our Country are trying to “OUTLAW DECLAWING”._____________
Eva D.R.Force
Sweet, sweet post, Ruth!
This just tells it like it is- and if we keep talking about x-rays and asking folks who care enough to do it- this will be HUGE for the Paw Project to prove how disabled these kitties truly are. And if they happen not to be physically disabled from the x-rays how about the almost certain arthritis that will develop OR the emotional harm that has been done (which cannot be x-rayed of course)then the proof that the Paw Project has gathered is sure to make an impact for future kitties.