It wouldn't be you going without the cat, it would be the cat going
without you. I have seen cats given up by their owners grieve and
mourn
themselves TO DEATH. I've seen cats given away by their owners be
fine.
I've seen cats who have been declawed suffer. I have seen cats who
have
been declawed do absolutely fine. It isn't all as easy as it looks
sometimes.
I have not had a cat declawed but I did have one who had to have a
mastectomy and who I am sure would have been in horrible pain had it
not
been for the oral pain meds the vet prescribed. I would hope any vet
doing declaw surgery would provide pain meds.
At any rate I'm 44 so hopefully it would be a while before I went into
a
nursing home.
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Natalie <at...@optonline.net> wrote:
I would seriously consider declawing very, very seriously– it is the
most
devastating thing for a cat. Knowing what I do, I would be more
heartbroken doing it to a beloved cat than being without the cat, trust
me. I wonder how a cat would feel if
he/she knew that it had a choice between missing the owner or having
their
paws mutilated? According to Dr. Nicholas Doddman, who wrote The Cat
that
Cried for Help, after declawing surgery, cats feel such extreme pain
that
they either climb the walls of the cage or sit completely morose and
cowering in the corner, something that their owners will never see. I
have a copy of an article written for NY Times Magazine a few years
ago,
where a woman writes about declawing her older cat because her mother’s
oriental rug was being scratched up. It is one of my hand-out’s to
adopters – the story is heartbreaking, and very typical. After the
hurricane is over, I will scan it and post it. It is probably the best
I’ve read, without going into the gory details of declawing.
Natalie
From: felvtalk-boun...@felineleukemia.org
[mailto:felvtalk-boun...@felineleukemia.org] On Behalf Of Kelley
Saveika
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 7:22 PM
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] FW: Keep Cats Indoors
Sorry! This is a 62 email thread in gmail. I don't know how your
email
program organizes stuff. Anyway I did not look at the date.
I've seen cats (especially senior cats) mourn their owners literally to
death after being given away, and honestly in that case I'd rather
declaw
them. Hopefully I will not need to make that choice.
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Natalie <at...@optonline.net> wrote:
OMG – you are responding to a post from March……I thought that I was
going
crazy and somehow missed a whole thread of talking about declawing,
NOW!
There are also some apartments that allow cats ONLY if they are
declawed…I
guess they prefer taking their chances of those cats peeing everywhere
instead of possibly scratching something, and it would most likely be
the
tenants’ own furniture!
I would rather give my cat away than declaw it – especially when it’s
an
older cat – it’s so much harder on them (not that it isn’t on young(er)
cats).
There needs to be a lot of education on declawing and what the
psychological/emotional and physical effects can take be. We have had
a
few abandoned declawed cats, and I have witnessed almost all of
them…..but
all the damage had already been done, and what was I to do – throw them
out or kill them? I found some homes that understood the ramifications
and dealt with the problems as well as they could.
From: felvtalk-boun...@felineleukemia.org
[mailto:felvtalk-boun...@felineleukemia.org] On Behalf Of Kelley
Saveika
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 6:45 PM
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] FW: Keep Cats Indoors
Because if the owner has to go into the nursing home and is fortunate
enough to find one where they can take their cat, the nursing home is
likely to require declawing.
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Natalie <at...@optonline.net> wrote:
That is true, but I don't understand why an old person can't have a cat
with
claws. Dealing mostly with feral cats, I have never been bitten or
scratched - what's the danger, I am 70 yrs old. And as I said, bites
are
a
natural defense for declawed cats!
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