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Cat Forum / Health and Behavior / January 2007declawing petition?
dear all after recent postings and topics on declawing, furniture, etc etc, I am wondering if there were any online petitions which one might be able to sign or put one's name too in order to support a possible ban on declawing in the US of A. Thankfully this barbaric practice is already illegal in England (UK) but it really distresses me that it is still perfectly legal in America and still seems to occur frequently. I was wondering if there were any petitions or campaigns or similar for making declawing illegal to which I could lend my support, I am sure that there are many more people reading this newsgroup who would like to lend their support to such a campaign if there was one. right, I'm off to watch jessie having a damn good time scratching the hell out of my leather sofas downstairs, she has never actually shown any interest in doing this before but if i cover them in catnip she may do. Then i will take photos of the carnage, maybe even video it, and send it to eDogs wife just to freak her out. She will probably be so horrified that there are people out there who refuse to get all uptight about their furniture that she may well have to be taken to a psychiatric unit or health clinic to get over the trauma, maybe become a permanent resident, and while she is there eDog can get rid of the leather sofa, fill the house with lots of bean bags and cushions and huge cat beds and live the rest of his days surrounded by the sound of purring coming from the hoards of contented unmutilated cats living there with him. sounds like a plan to me. Bookie I found a worldwide one here: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/327400811?ltl=1169262167 I wonder why vets would even consider doing this. Do any ever flat out refuse to do it? > dear all > [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > Bookie > I found a worldwide one here: > > http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/327400811?ltl=1169262167 > > I wonder why vets would even consider doing this. Do any ever flat out > refuse to do it? thanks i have now signed it, hope some other here will do so too, if there are any other petitions anyone knows about please let me have the details, i want to do whatever i can from this side of the pond to get rid of this awful practice. since declawing is banned in the uk and most likely the rest of europe too obviously all vets here would refuse to do it. If I lived in the US of A it would be a good test to find a decent vet to take my kitty to though; any vets who say they will declaw my cat would not be getting my business as i would not consider them worthy of being in charge of my cats medical health. come on the rest of you, sign up!!!! I don't feel a declawing petition is what is needed. People need to be educated but still be given the option of declawing in a last ditch effort to keep the cat. See my other post. >I found a worldwide one here: > > http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/327400811?ltl=1169262167 Thanks for posting the link. > I wonder why vets would even consider doing this. Do any ever flat out > refuse to do it? A few vets in the US refuse to declaw, but most perform the procedure. In my opinion, the reason is *money.* MaryL The ONLY reason I would condone declawing would be if it would keep one more cat in a home. Lets say the owner has a cat who is just destroying the crap out of their furniture. They have made up their mind that they have no choice but to either boot it out to be an outdoor cat, or dump it at the shelter. If declawing the cat would mean that the owner will keep the cat in their home, then and only then would I be for declawing. We don't need more cats in shelters, and we don't need more cats roaming outdoors. > The ONLY reason I would condone declawing would be if it would keep one more > cat in a home. Lets say the owner has a cat who is just destroying the [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > in their home, then and only then would I be for declawing. We don't need > more cats in shelters, and we don't need more cats roaming outdoors. It's all left-wing propaganda, Angie... There's absolutely nothing whatsoever wrong with the procedure. Our boy has never been happier OR healthier, and he's had all ten removed. He readily plays with his hanging toy, just as if his claws still existed. He even continues to use a favorite scratching post. The ONLY thing that has changed is that he is no longer capable of destroy our stuff. If we couldn't have had them removed, we never would have taken him in, and he would still be a little hobo ghost.... living on the fringes of our property line (that's IF he were still alive). He would never know the paradise that he enjoys today. These people who protest against this... They really don't give a rat'z azz about the cat's health. What we have here is further encroachment into the sane world by the last vestiges of the 1960's insane mentality. "Don't tell your children 'No"... "Do as thou will". "If it feels good, do it". THIS is what they resent... an Establishment with set rules... Rules that sometime say 'no'. And THEY don't like it! Just look at their kids, if you have any doubt about what I'm driving at! They're all total f.cking terrors. Wasted shallow lives. You tell them to get off the hood of you car and they look at you like you had earth-worms coming out of your ears. That's because the word 'no' is almost totally alien to them. Beware, the animal rights Kooks.... They're all 60's refuse or 60's wanna-bees. And they want to take away from YOU... IBen Getiner You're a little over the top, you certainly didn't need to lash out at them as you did. However, I digress. I had one cat who we declawed. Only one out of many many cats that we had too because we wanted to keep him, and he ruined all our furniture. Toby was fine. He acted just like a cat with claws. As you said, he used the scratcher, he even contined to scratch our furniture. He scratched the carpet and he walked, and jumped and had perfect balance just like a cat with claws, and that was just a day after the procedure. I still rather people not declaw, but do it only if you must. > The ONLY reason I would condone declawing would be if it would keep one more > cat in a home. Lets say the owner has a cat who is just destroying the [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > in their home, then and only then would I be for declawing. We don't need > more cats in shelters, and we don't need more cats roaming outdoors. It's all left-wing propaganda, Angie... There's absolutely nothing whatsoever wrong with the procedure. Our boy has never been happier OR healthier, and he's had all ten removed. He readily plays with his hanging toy, just as if his claws still existed. He even continues to use a favorite scratching post. The ONLY thing that has changed is that he is no longer capable of destroy our stuff. If we couldn't have had them removed, we never would have taken him in, and he would still be a little hobo ghost.... living on the fringes of our property line (that's IF he were still alive). He would never know the paradise that he enjoys today. These people who protest against this... They really don't give a rat'z azz about the cat's health. What we have here is further encroachment into the sane world by the last vestiges of the 1960's insane mentality. "Don't tell your children 'No"... "Do as thou will". "If it feels good, do it". THIS is what they resent... an Establishment with set rules... Rules that sometime say 'no'. And THEY don't like it! Just look at their kids, if you have any doubt about what I'm driving at! They're all total f.cking terrors. Wasted shallow lives. You tell them to get off the hood of you car and they look at you like you had earth-worms coming out of your ears. That's because the word 'no' is almost totally alien to them. Beware, the animal rights Kooks.... They're all 60's refuse or 60's wanna-bees. And they want to take away from YOU... IBen Getiner > A few vets in the US refuse to declaw, but most perform the procedure. In > my opinion, the reason is *money.* A close second is emotional blackmail. If the vet doensn't declaw the cat the client threatens to get rid of the cat- possibly cruelly. I've heard that one more than a few times. Phil |
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