Please help us ban declawing

Welcome to Pet Talk, kattaddorra. Here in Germany, where I live, declawing is also banned. Same goes for docking the tails and ears of dogs. I hope sooner or later these things will be a no-go in all countries...

Kirsten

Hi Kirsten and thanks for the welcome and how I agree with you in hoping that one day all animal abuse will be banned worldwide. But meanwhile many animals are suffering daily.I can't understand why some vets, the very people trained to help animals, are willing to mutilate them.How come vets in countries where it is still legal, yet who know it is cruel and wrong, still do it. Surely they must know their fellow vets in the same country who won't do it,and all the vets in other countries who would never even consider doing it,have good reason not to ! I wouldn't trust any vet who will do these operations as it's purely for the money and the selfishness of the client. Of the many Americans and Canadians signing our petition, most are boycotting these practices..... hopefully they'll get the message soon.
Katt

JustineNYC, so we should declaw all cats incase they get hung up on things ? You are joking I hope ! How many cats have you seen do that ? In a lifetime of working for vets,doing cat rescue, and having cats of my own, I've never seen that even once !! Should we remove all parts from all animals incase they hurt them, take their teeth out incase they break one ?
Maybe we should have our finger ends chopped off incase we break a nail and get it caught in something ????
Same thing !
Katt

1212 signatures now and just made contact with Annie Bruce the USA author, she has been battling for years to get declawing banned ! She's thrilled to know we in England care and says to thank everyone everywhere who has signed the petition.
Katt :D

Way to go, good for you, some might think it futile, but if you don't try it is not going to happen, keep up the hard work, i am sure it will pay off in the end, i hope your petition numbers grow steadily, good luck.:):love:

Thanks Carole !:) Well we now have 1303 signatures from 41 different countries, although 50% are from the USA !! 25% from England, where its banned anyway but we care about cats even not in our own country, and 25% from the others.We are soon launching an 'International Ban Declawing Union' which when we have enough signatures and statistics of cats suffering after declawing, we hope will be taken seriously.
We have had a USA vet sign our petition , he is now refusing to declaw cats !!! This is GREAT news !!!
http://www.petitionthem.com/default....etail&pet=4312
and a writer in the USA has devoted her weekly spot to the truth about declawing. The beautiful cat Jozef featured on his scratching post is one of ours !!!
http://frequentlyfeline.blogspot.com...friday-on.html
Also on Yahoo Answers, 24 people have changed their minds about declawing their cats after reading about it,more and more are joining us against it ! 24 isn't a lot on the scale of how it goes on, but if those 24 will spread the word even to one person each and they..... do the same and so on,it will reach everyone eventually.... vets won't tell the truth while making money from this barbaric practice, so its up to us !!
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Although in fairness to Vets , there have been cases and My Own Vet has told me this where these Cats are scratching valuable furniture and the Guradians cant break them of the habit.:eek:
So its either the Cat is declawed or goes to the SPCA or is "accidentally" lost , a phrase someone used to him.:eek:
He took that Cat with thier consent and now Mortimers His Cat.:love::love:
I would of course NEVER DECLAW a Found Cat, but then again my furnitures all second hand.:D
Even if I paid for good furniture I know I wouldnt declaw , but try and train them what they can scratch,
But then again I am retired and have a lot of free time.
This is a touxhy situation , and I am trying to see both sides something My Dear Mother taught me years ago.
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kattaddorra, Nice to meet you, from another English cat lover, I have a site here which I would like to put your petition link on if you don't mind. Aptly named http://www.declawing.co.uk/index.html :)

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Originally Posted by JustineNYC

You have to understand most people who own animals are very stupid.

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Now, that is a generalization. They may be unfamiliar with or uneducated regarding declawing or other practices but that doesn't mean they're stupid. Some people are irresponsible pet owners, not all.

I've never declawed a cat and never will and I've never rescued one either. i had always made it a practice to adopt only cats w/disabilities or that had been abused and/or neglected so I can't speak w/authority about how declawing has affected cats. I can only go on hearsay and everyone that I know that has had cats declawed has reported no issues, albeit if the cats could talk, they may tell a different story. I still would never do it because my ret. vet told me when I asked him about declawing "Do you think it would hurt if I pulled off all your fingernails and cut your fingers off at the first knuckle?" Case closed for me.