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Does declawing hurt cats?
Q: I'm thinking about declawing my kitten. Does declawing hurt cats?
A: The declaw process entails the removal of the last digit of the cats' toe. The entire piece of bone, not just the nail, must be removed to prevent the nail from growing back.
Does Declawing Hurt Cats?
In general, declawing is a painful procedure. Most veterinarians now use a combination of painkillers to minimize your pets' discomfort. For the declaw procedure, your cat will be asleep under general anesthesia. They can also be given a local anesthetic which when applied to their toes will make them numb. There are oral medications that your veterinarian can provide you with to prevent pain at home after surgery.
When Should I Consider Declawing My Cat?
If you are going to declaw your cat, try to do it at six months of age at the same time that they are being neutered or spayed. This will reduce the amount of times your pet needs to be under anesthesia.
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People should not declaw their cats, they should get a different pet. It is barbaric. Why on earth chop off bits of a perfectly healthy animal, which causes it to have bad balance, a problem in the litter box, often pain in the feet forever because the surface the weight rests on has been greatly reduced by removing in total five bits of bone from the foot. Think about it. How well would you walk if the last bit of every one of your toes was removed? Even should the pain actually go away, if you were lucky? Even for humans, every bit of toe is very important for their balance. Just the loss of the little toe can have very unexpected results.
How can anyone mutilate an animal to protect their furniture? And being scratched myself, normally by accident because my cats love me and I treat them well so they don't scratch me, well I just put some iodine and am fine.
So I have a cat that wouldn't stop kicking the fur off his chest; to the point of being bloody. He was also extremely agressive. He would attack. Not just swat, but grab on and kick away until you were lucky enough to get him off. I had two choices since this cat was a threat to everyone. 1. Kill him 2. Declaw him and hope he didn't become a biter. Which one would you have done?
you can't hurt something that doesn't have a soul.
Declawing is unnecessary. You can clip the claws and buy scratching posts. If this is a furniture issue, cover the furniture until you can train them to use posts. As someone else said, declawing is an indication of a lazy owner, and a greedy vet.
Do not declaw your cats:( It is so mean!
Give it a rest, declawed cats do fine.
"Well! I got cat scratch fever and i'm telling you declaw if you have an agresive cat. They release poison from thier claws into you."
Its a cat, not a platypus ...