The whole world needs to know this cat’s story and to join the movement to have the declawing of cats banned worldwide! The medical records of Martha, a blue cream Persian cat, show that she was FOUR PAW declawed on 11th July 2014.
What sort of vet would declaw a cat of her age? Bad enough front paw declawing at her age or at any age, but declawing ALL FOUR paws is nothing short of EVIL. Imagine the shock and pain and bewilderment this poor cat must have suffered and still be suffering. How can she ever recover?
We don’t know who was caring for her in between enduring that cruel surgery up until she was for sale in a Pet Shop, for an adoption fee of $69 USD. The lady in the Pet Shop said she had come from a Veterinary Hospital. This is all the information the concerned cat rescuers could get.
One person said Martha may have had an elderly caretaker who had died and that the Veterinary Hospital had taken her in, but if so, why did they declaw her?
Before the Rescuers could get her out of the Pet Shop to take her to a Persian Cat Rescue, she was sold to someone unknown! Who adopted her? Will they understand her needs? Will they care for her properly?
I’m hoping that some of those wonderful people who dedicate their lives to rescuing cats, will come and tell us if they find out more about how Martha came to be in that shop and if they have found out where she is now and if she is with someone who will care for her as she should be.
This horrific story highlights the cruelty of declawing. That any vet would amputate the eighteen toe ends of a ten year old cat, is beyond belief.
Bad enough depriving young kittens of their claws, disabling them for life, bad enough declawing adult cats of any age, bad enough any cat having to live with two mutilated paws, but whoever performed this cruel surgery on Martha should be named and shamed! He/she would be struck off the Veterinary register in other civilised countries of the world.
Yet declawing is LEGAL in the USA!
This vet won’t be punished, the only one being punished is Martha, the victim! PLEASE everyone, help us to stop this legalised abuse of cats, Martha can never have her toe ends back but together we can protect more cats from the same fate.
Declawing does not keep cats in their homes, it does just the opposite in fact, because people who will only have an adapted cat with no claws, certainly won’t tolerate a cat with behavioural problems caused by being declawed.
- Join the Paw Project, see the ways you can help. Like their page and all the Paw Project branch pages on Facebook if you are a member and follow them on Twitter.
- Watch and share the Paw Project movie.
- Share Martha’s story.
On behalf of all the cats suffering and all the cats doomed to suffer from being declawed until we stop it,
PLEASE help us to help them!
As far as I know Kylee, I don’t believe there is a owner involved. That is why I believe the owner passed. Surely, no one would suggest a 4 paw declaw on their cat at 10 years if age. Martha should have had some kind of protection from the community or at the least from the health worker that I truly believe has destroyed this cat. If it was illegal, we wouldn’t be having this discussion and Martha wouldn’t be ruined.
This was all legal too! Totally normal and therefore not protected by the law nor deemed animal abuse. Strange isn’t it? What sort of standards are we setting in respect of animal welfare?
I just cant believe anyone would do this to their Beloved cat at age 10Yrs. Whats wrong with People these days. It be like for me to Declaw Smokey Which i would never do. As would terribly break my heart and mind. Thank Goodness its Illegal here in NZ. I just cant understand though why would anyone do that to an Older Cat then Give the Cat away to a Pet Shop and then the Owner saying its not theirs even though its been registered. Whats the Point of having Micro Chipping if you refuse to take the animal Back. It definilty makes me think differently. I just cant believe people do this. Makes me so Mad and Annoyed!!
I got such an awful shock when I heard about Martha, so many terrible things happened to her in such a short time. What I’d like to know is, where did she live for the first 10 years of her life and what happened to make her homeless, how sad if she was in fact left homeless after bereavement, where was she living when the decision was made to amputate her toe ends, who made the decision and why, how did she end up in a pet shop, was it Pets at Home or some other shop connected to a shelter and who was actually her “owner” all this time. There is so much we don’t know and neither do we know where she is and who now has her, was she just sold or was she adopted. It’s a nightmare story and I tend to agree with Leah that Martha would have been better off dead than abused as she was, God knows what condition she is in now and how she is coping with her deliberately inflicted disability. The picture of her is heart-breaking, I am so angry that this is still going on even as we fight it and the fight is getting stronger it is still happening and cats are still suffering.
Ahsan, no, if the cat starts biting, the owner doesn’t have his teeth removed. Instead, they take the cat to a shelter where they are killed because they have “behavior issues”. They never get a chance to find another home. In short, they lose their life because their owner had them mutilated and didn’t like the outcome of the declawing. If a cat owner knows the truth about what declaw surgery is, and the problems that can happen, and still proceed with the amputation, I say they do not love the cat.
Susan, I know she was “sold” in North Carolina. I would love to find out the name of the unethical scumbag that inflicted such cruelty upon Martha. I would shout their name from the rooftop.