Originally posted by PJ's Mom
About defending themselves...

My vet told me yesterday that they are able to defend themselves after being declawed. Of course I got the image of Barclay having to roll on his back to use his back claws and wondered what kind of defense that is. It would be kind of like us not being able to use our hands to defend ourselves. Doesn't make much sense to me.
It doesn't make sense at all. First off the back claws (I think anyways could be wrong) are more for help with pushing a cat up when they climb rather than defense. If it hadn't medically necessary to have Mina declawed I wouldn't have done it.