Please help us ban declawing

[kattaddorra]

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 !!

[catmandu]

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.
So its either the Cat is declawed or goes to the SPCA or is "accidentally" lost , a phrase someone used to him.
He took that Cat with thier consent and now Mortimers His Cat.
I would of course NEVER DECLAW a Found Cat, but then again my furnitures all second hand.
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.

[PayItForward]

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

[Medusa]

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

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.