I took my vets word for it when he said that the cats experience discomfort forever when declawed, so I trim my two indoor-cats claws once a week with regular nail clippers. After having a few ferrets, I got pretty good at clipping nails without hitting the vein. I tried the glue-on covers when they were mentioned here a year or so back, but my younger cat had a tendency to chew them off...
~bgl ~ -----Original Message----- ~ From: Jim Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 11:35 AM ~ To: CF-Community ~ Subject: Re: Declawing cats ~ ~ Can't vets (or someone) also file down the tips to make them a bit less ~ destructive/dangerous? ~ ~ - Jim ~ ~ Smith, Matthew P -CONT(CSC) wrote: ~ ~ >NO! It's really, really bad. It's analogous with cutting off the first ~ joint of your finger. Even if it's an indoor-only cat, should it get out ~ it would be pretty much defenseless. ~ > ~ >Perhaps you could do what I did - adopt a stray that is already declawed; ~ no claws, no guilt. There are tons of great animals that could use a good ~ home. ~ > ~ >Also, there are some funny looking plastic tips that you can glue(?) on ~ their claws. I'll try to find the url. ~ > ~ >Matthew ~ > ~ > ~ > ~ >-----Original Message----- ~ >From: Matthew Small [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ >Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 10:17 AM ~ >To: CF-Community ~ >Subject: Declawing cats ~ > ~ >Should it be done? I'm contemplating getting a cat - but only if it's got ~ no ~ >claws. ~ > ~ >- Matt Small ~ > ~ > ~ > ~ > ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
