What affects us affects cats
Criticising the San Francisco SPCA by Michael (London, UK) I feel justified in criticising the The San Francisco SPCA. They are sitting on the fence big time when it comes to declawing. Declawing is the one subject that requires nothing less than total commitment to stop it and to fight off the wealthy veterinary …
CLAWED CATS AND NICE FURNITURE TOO by Ruth (England) Some people like to live in a carefree home, they don’t worry about their furniture, they love to have cats in their homes. Some people like to live in a well ordered house with expensive furniture and possessions, they love to have cats in their …
By Ruth aka Kattaddorra The paws and claws of cats are exceptionally well made and to those of us who truly love cats, those claws are as beautiful a part of the cat as any other part is. The way cats claws can retract is wonderful and in my opinion they are more well …
by Susan (Ohio, USA) Mushu’s front declawed paw pads are hard, dark, irritated, and misshaped. “A digitigrade is an animal that stands or walks on its digits, or toes…”. Have you noticed that many pro-declawers and veterinarians use the argument that cats walk on their paw pads so they don’t need the last digit …
by Ruth (England) OUR FAMILY HAVE ALWAYS DECLAWED OUR CATS…Then it’s time to break the family tradition! Declawing is a cruel and unnecessary operation and there are alternatives to having your cat’s last toe joints amputated. Having scratching posts and pads around the house for your cat and regularly trimming his claws are all …
Cat declawing grosses veterinarians $1200 per hour by Michael (London, UK) What can I say. The Paw Project on Facebook have calculated that veterinarians make $1200 per hour declawing cats. That is why they hate, detest, are extremely anxious a ban on declawing cats. I guess that was obvious but it is nice to …
by Michael As I understand it cat declawing in England and Wales is illegal under section 5 of the Animal Welfare Act 2006 (AWA). This section is headed “mutilation”. Section 5 allows tail docking, sadly. The Irish veterinary association, Veterinary Ireland (VI), support a complete ban on the docking of puppies’ tails, incidentally. Ireland …
Both my cats were declawed and neither was traumatized I had both of my cats de-clawed a very long time ago when they were both very young. Kelly lived to be 19 and Sunshine lived to be 17. I am not for or against de-clawing in general, it was a personal choice I made. …
