By Ruth aka Kattaddorra
This article and poster were inspired by Dee who commented on the post: Declaw Bouquets and Brickbats for Veterinarians.
‘Could we see a hatchet instead of a brick? Easier to cut off fingers at the first knuckle’
It made me laugh and then imagine how good it would be if declawing vets could have a taste of their own medicine from cats.
So, just suppose cats were as large as humans and humans were as small as cats! Suppose cats had the power to definger the humans who definger them!
I was very tempted to design a declawing vet having his finger ends chopped off by a cat with a hatchet, just for Dee, but cats wouldn’t be so cruel.
They would anesthetise their patient before cutting off his finger ends with a bone cutter, or a resco clipper, or by burning them off with a laser. That’s what declaw vets do.
But here’s the difference, a human can be told what his surgery entails and he is asked for his consent. Cats don’t know what is going to happen to them, they are left at the clinic to face being handled by strangers who cause them fear and pain and shock.
Some of those strangers even charge extra for pain medication after the surgery? Would cats do that? I don’t think so, because cats are not money hungry unfeeling creatures like some vets are.
But the cats in the poster are giving Dr D. Claws no choice to consent and they are charging extra because one of their friends was mutilated by that vet and they want revenge.
In real life of course cats don’t seek revenge, well they can’t can they, they have to accept their fate. Declawed cats have to live with the effects of their ten amputations whether they like it or not.
They have to walk on their severed finger ends immediately they are up and about after their surgery……… and for the rest of their lives.
At least Dr D. Claws won’t have to do that.
I’m glad you like it Dee 🙂
Now what can you inspire me to do next?
x
Oh that’s a lovely bouquet, thanks Babz 🙂 and for all you do towards stopping declawing too.
Well sis you’ve done it again, what a vivid imagination you have and what a brilliant poster, it’s a dream come true for those of us who abhor declawing and everyone who is willing to do it for profit. I hope Dr D Claws gets every complication know to cat, I hope he can’t manage on his lavatory with his stumps and his wife kicks him out of the house for being dirty, I hope he gets pain and disfigurement in his joints, and I hope he feels all out of sorts and disagreeable with the world in general due to the discomfort in his stumps. If I lived in the US of a near a practice that performs this mutilation for profit I would print off copies of this poster and paste them on the windows of the surgery overnight and pop a copy through the letterbox for good measure. I’m awarding you a cyber bouquet for brilliance.
HOORAY!!! GREAT POSTER! JUST DESSERTS!
Dr D. Claws may not have to walk on those bloody painful stumps, but he won’t be doing any more surgeries!
These cats have come alive. I almost feel I know them. It is funny and sad, a poignant mix. Your posters are an integral part of PoC and I am very proud of that.
It certainly makes the message loud and clear that declawing cats is frankly bizarre in the 21st century. It was bad enough in the last century but you would have hoped that the vets would have become more civilised by now.
Thanks Ruth for another great poster.
Ruth again what a brilliant poster! I love the way you’ve depicted the vet!
De-clawing is done by un-feeling people both vets and so-called ‘caretakers’ alike who give absolutely no thought to how the poor cat feels. What I find even worse is that pain medication is also elective!! Vets should not do the surgery at all but as we all know until this is banned so they should be made to provide pain medication until the cat starts to heal as part of the package – no extensive pain medication then no procedure!!! Its horrific beyond belief to think that knowing what they do (and oh yes they do know!!) they send a cat home with no pain meds and then the stupid selfish idiot who had this done is probably wondering why their cat huddles up in a corner scared and in agony.
I would love to inflict pain on some of these vets and then say ‘sorry no pain medication for you, get on with it and see what it feels like to have no choice and then no pain refief’
I hate everything that falls under the whole evil concept that is de-clawing but most of all I hate the perpetrators that know better I would to cut a toe of theirs off one at at time until they vow to stop breaking their oath to harm no animal.
Thanks again Ruth for your relentless determination to bring this to the attention of as many people as you can with yet another brilliantly illustrated informative article.