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I heard about this and thought it was silly. Its just going to make people take the subway to the burbs to declaw their cat. All San Fran really did by doing this is cut away at veterinarian incomes within the city.
I own a cat. I love him absolutely to death. I was going to get him declawed when I first got him, but my radical animal rights activist aunt convinced me not to......For the time being.......But, if there ever comes a time when he feels he needs to scratch a piece of furniture to pieces, that will be the day that I drive him up to our vet and have the problem dealt with permanently.
Yes.......I know it is the equivalent to having the top part of your finger cut off. Indeed, I believe this would be a painful and traumatizing experience, which is why I don't scratch people's belongings. Cats will scratch up your 3000 dollar leather couch no matter how you might feel about it.
You might try Soft Claws rather than multi-digit amputation. Declawing is detrimental to the personalities of many cats. Our first two cats were declawed, and had definite personality problems (lots of anxiety) for the rest of their lives. Our current two have all of their claws, and do all of their clawing on rugs and their cat tree, as we have trained them.
Yeah, I dont feel good about declawing cats... they need them for more than just scratching... psychologically too. It reminds me of those people who have their dogs´voice boxes removed because they bark
Why even get a cat just to alter it. Either you like them THE WAY THEY ARE or you don't and if you don't then don't get one.
I am not a cat person but it just makes no sense to me when people get a pet and alter what nature gave them.
exactly.
"i know it causes pain and psychological damage to the cat but wahhhh my fancy furniture". don't get a cat then. or clip their nails. or teach them to scratch where you want them to scratch. or use those nail cover things.
OMg now we have a city telling someone what they cant do with their cat.
Whats next?
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