> Part of your problem is that you choose to look at only the positive > parts of the things you agree with and only the negative things of the > ones you disagree with.
Since you've now moved on to personal attacks like this, I'm not sure this is even worth my time to reply to...particularly since this applies WAY more to you as you are now even making up positive conclusions about declawing that have zero scientific basis whatsover. But will make a few quick points (there is so much in this I could refute, but I have better things to do): > a spay or neuter (especially a spay) IS > WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY more traumatic to the pet. I never mentioned a spay, only a neuter (caster). While you may be able to debate about a spay being more traumatic due to the level of invasiveness, it's pretty absurd to say a neuter is "WAY" more traumatic than a declaw. Most vets don't even suture after a cat neuter and just let it heal naturally. > LOL!!! So if i come over and rip out your sexual organs so you cant > ever have sex again and according to you that would fill your life > with happiness!! Great, so now we are going to compare our animals with human feelings and needs. Okay fine, well if someone was going to never *allow* me to have sex again, then YES absolutely I would want to give up having cramps and bleeding every month and sexual desires that I can't act on. Absolutely I would want that. Again, unless your solution is to let all the cats roam and freely breed (which of course would result in HUGE numbers of cats being put to sleep) this is just a specious argument. > Let me come over and make a 15" incision into your abdomen and take a > few organs out and stitch it back up and then I want to hear you say > this statement again. You shouldn't make such statements when you know nothing about me and what medical procedures I have had done. I *have* had abdominal surgery, and I've also had joint surgery, and from my own experience, I would take the abdominal surgery any day. And a 15" incisions is hardly a valid comparison to the relatively small incision needed for a spay. If you are cutting the entire length of the cat's abdomen, no wonder they are having trouble recovering from it! >From here you start getting into more statements that have no scientific >backing, just your own personal conjecture about how many wonderful things a >declaw can do (apparently you have no problems doing the very thing you accuse >me of doing, of putting everything into a positive light) so I'm not going to >bother with them. I'll just point out that declawing is hardly an accepted >surgery among all vets, so clearly this is not just a matter of my supposed >lack of medical knowledge. Here's a list of known vets that do not, or seldom >do, declaws: http://www.declaw.com/list.asp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:248983 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
