You Can’t Declaw a Micro Pig

Don't people who want a cat period want a companion? A very specific type of companion, someone who can cuddle you at night and who greets you with a little meow.

You can't replace one kind of companion animal with another and believe that the two are equal. That's why we have cat people and dog people.

Completely off topic but re-reading Everycat's post where she mentions a pig bite being more serious than a cat scratch...well at the weekend I was bitten by a rabbit!! And the pain was tremendous! It lasted for ages even though the skin wasn't broken. So I'm sorry but as well as all sharp bits and dangly bits being removed from cats, dogs and micro pigs in the interests of health and safety,those rabbits gnashers are going to have to go!

Well, someone somewhere will have said the same thing and done it too!

De clawing cats, removing voice boxes from dogs to prevent them from barking, cutting puppy dogs ears so they stand erect making the dog look more aggressive...just three of the terrible horrendous and disgusting things human beings do to animals and as rightly stated above not done by people who really love and respect their pets. I feel sorry for the micro pig because they grow up!By the time they reach knee height they will no longer be the sweet little creature that you maybe shared your bed with but a large pig (knee height is big for an animal with such short legs!)More photos of the adult pigs need to be shown and people need to know that pigs can be quite aggressive and extremely destructive at times! That is their nature.I hope people don't get these little piggies just because they are cute...I hope they read up on them and make an informed decision.But of course, the sort of person who will buy this little pig wont be able to read!!!

Remember the craze for keeping Pot Bellied Pigs a few years ago? What miserable lives those pigs had, kept inside, unable to express their natural behaviours. How many ended up being eaten? How many ended up being abused, abandoned, relinquished?

Those who believe that animals are there for the sole purpose of entertaining humans would have no problem defanging, devocalising, tranquillising or hobbling these tiny pigs. If people think kittens and cats can exhibit challenging behaviours, then seeing what a pig can get up to would likely blow their minds.

Pigs are magnificent animals, probably 100 times more "destructive" (curious & brave) than kittens and physically very strong for their size. If a pig bites you - you really know about it, pig bites (from bored pigs) would put tiny scratches from cat claws into perspective.

The pro-declaw brigade might say they had their cat mutilated to avoid the risk of their children being scratched - just what would they do to a tiny pig who is capable of biting through a human finger in one juicy, crunchy chomp do? Remove its teeth? Remove its lower jaw and have a PEG tube fitted? There's no end human inventiveness!

I think that instead of finding more animals for humans to keep as pets, we actually need fewer types of animals available to be kept as pets. I'm with Ruth, a competence test for all animal stewards.

What a good idea, hooves instead of paws, imagine all the toe ends saved from the clinical waste bags. The bad news for the micropigs is that owners may not surrender them to a shelter, as they do cats, when they do something wrong, but instead when they get bored with them they'll probably kill them and eat them! That's about on a par with how much compassion is shown to some companion animals.

I've always said anyone who wants a pet of any kind should first be made to sit a competence test ! But that will never happen.

I've posted the link to this blog on our group, hope you get some more comments as it's an unusual topic.

I agree Ruth. People want cats like they want a new kitchen. That is why if they gave some thought to keeping a pig we might save some claws because micro pigs might better fit some people's idea of what they want. Only people who respect the cat or any animal as they are should be allowed to keep them as a companion.

Thanks for the comment.

Well I don't really know what to say, for once I'm almost 'speechless' ha ha

You are right in that people who declaw cats don't want a cat, they want their idea of a cat and they'd be happy if a cat was born without claws.I expect someone is right now experimenting to try to breed clawless cats !

These people who can't accept Nature's own beauty would probably find some fault with these lovely little pigs, maybe even get them 'degrunted' I'm sure some vets would oblige if they could make money from it !

Some people are not fit to have any sort of animal,they just want them as possessions ! Or '
for the baby' as in a declawed cat so the poor creature is akin to a soft toy.Or as a status symbol, such as a pet tiger.

It breaks my heart to think of helpless animals in the power of just anyone who can do almost anything to them,especially the declawing of cats,which is legalised premeditated abuse.

Some people might say that if this slightly tongue in cheek suggestion was taken up, there would be abandonments and more cats euthanised. Yes, true, initially.

But we must think long term, I believe, and in the long term it would greatly benefit the domestic cat if all people who kept a cat were against declawing.

And if all the people who kept cats were thoughtful enough to reject declawing there would also be better cat care and less abandonments.