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)
You did a brilliant job there Michael, even a picture of Sebastian and his diary at the top
🙂
I detest, more than I can say, seeing a cougar, one of the world’s greatest jumpers and a most athletic cat, crippled by complete idiots. It is not just the declawing it is the whole bloody stupidity of keeping a cougar as a pet and then declawing him/her. It is monstrous and the worst kind of base human behavior.
It is a deeply honest and genuine story. Charming and innocent which is why it carries so much weight.
Ruth, I am very happy with the PDF file which presents the whole story. It looks good. I guess you have checked it out. I was a bit concerned it would be lost when the website was transferred.
https://pictures-of-cats.org/support-files/sebastiansdiary.pdf
I would love to see Sebastian in a book, all his diaries with this little ray of hope for him and Muriel at the end, will they get their xrays and then their paws repaired, God I hope so. I know Ruth’s posters have been used widely on the Internet even by the Paw Project to get the info out, I think being so colourful they draw the reader in and then BANG the information is all there right in front of the eyes. I think a booklet would be great for people who don’t find the info via the Net or prefer to read something they can hold in their hands. But so far away I don’t see it happening.
It’s horrible to think of cats large or small having to drag themselves by their elbows because of injuries deliberately inflicted by people, how can anyone be so bloody cruel as to choose to do that. I saw the video Ruth mentioned of the newly declawed cat in obvious pain and shock and his jailers laughing at him, it was horrendous and it made me feel violent!!
I’m excited that things are hotting up and more and more people getting on-board the campaign to end declawing, I always thought it would never happen in my lifetime but now I’m feeling a bit more optimistic. I hope Sebastian and Muriel get some relief, as I hope many, many real live cats get some relief through this campaign by the paw project.
Another great article from sebastian love it. 🙂 Always have a way with words. its great encourgement for me its so sad that cats get declawed dont really understand it myself. i hope it gets outlawed everywhere on this earth one day.