Originally posted by wolfsoul
My vet does not recommend declawing -- she does recommend a tendonectomy (I think that's the word?) for those cats who just won't stop scratching things. It's painless and it's humane.
I beg to differ on tendonectomies being 'painless and humane'. It's still mutilation no matter how you look at it. Type in the words 'feline tendonectomy' into a search engine to find out facts please.
http://www.straypetadvocacy.org/html/declaw_law.html
Most of the sites I quickly looked at view tendonectomies in the same light as a total declaw operation. If you've ever had a pulled tendon, or tendonitis it's excruciating!