The Smell of the Blood of a Declawed Cat

It is just so awful what cats suffer and not many people know so I'm glad more techs are coming out with the truth.
I do wish they would all make a stand and refuse to be part of this cruelty any longer.

PLEASE TELL THE WHOLE WORLD about it!!!!

I am very lucky to have a vet, in the United States that refuses to declaw. Her staff is free to discuss the procedure with anyone wanting this horrendous procedure done. So many vets forbid their staff to tell it like it is.

I fervently hope that anyone reading this who is thinking about having this done will think again. I just don't understand why people who prefer their possessions to the welfare of their cats bothers to get one in the first place.

Since cats come from the "factory" equipped with these essential parts, it is insane, in my opinion, for anyone to want to mutilate their cat in this way.

Thanks for writing this.. I will certainly be passing it on.

I'm glad too that vet techs are speaking out now and I hope more will join them.
The truth has been hidden away for too long.
Wouldn't it be great if all vet techs united and refused to assist at declawings.I suppose some such as the cruel Heather who seems to enjoy helping to abuse animals wouldn't join in.But there must be hundreds who hate that part of their job.
Let those vets clean the bloody cages themselves and torture those already painful stumps with regluing etc.They might not be so keen then.
Come on vet techs,join the already brave compassionate ones and UNITE and help stop this abuse.

THANK YOU to the vet tech who wrote this! These are the stories that need to be told. I dearly hope we will begin to see more veterinary support staff speaking out about what they see and hear at work. I have witnessed all the things she describes in her article and more. Even though I've been a horror movie fan my whole life, declaw procedures and the immediate aftercare they require such as described here used to give me vivid nightmares. I have shared her story on Facebook and I hope more people will be brave enough to read it, as she is very brave to tell the truth.

I couldn't even read all of it. I got to the bit that said half cut half tug and that was enough for me.

And those owners are a disgrace; they ought to be hung up and left to rot. Such a beautiful cat. How could anyone do such an awful thing?

Obviously in America money going to the right places such as from vets and medical associations to politicians keeps this bloody awful thing alive. Its clearly too much of a money making machine to let it go that easily.

But why do we need to declaw the cat in the first place? He's a cat and needs to use the claws for climbing or hanging on to things! Any pet owner who does not understand this does not deserve to have a pet! and people should absolutely be careful of these much jaded vets who take animal care as any other job rather than really feeling for the animals.

Yes this is terrible and I'm very glad that brave vet techs and ex vet techs are spreaking out about the truth of the cruelty of declawing.
Reading another page on PoC where it seems a very illiterate and cold hearted person works for a vet and approves of the mutilation of animals,made my blood run cold.
If some vets employ people like that then if I lived in the USA I'd be terrified to take a pet to a clinic there and more especially to leave one in for treatment.
Who knows what they go through at the mercy of untrained,uncaring staff ?
I'm not saying all clinics are like that but how would you know ? It seems to me that the people who work for those practices are the same as the vets who own them, not in it to help animals but in it as a job only for the money.
PLEASE everyone boycott places that mutilate animals uneccessarily in any way, go to decent vets who stick to their oath to harm no animal as they are the ones more likely to have decent staff too.

With evidence like THIS declawing should cease to happen overnight! Anyone who wants their cat declawed should be forced to read it, in fact should be forced to witness it first hand. No human would ever willingly subject themselves to it so why do they think it's good enough for cats?