Okay, putting the flame-retardant suit on.

Vets are no different than other professionals. There are many that are vets for the love of the profession. It only takes a few to give all a bad name.

I've had good vets and bad vets. Sorry you had a bad vet that did the declawing. More education is definitely needed for vets and for pet owners.

I don't advocate declawing and would never do it. I know some people that have their cats declawed. They are very particular which vet they use.

I have a friend that is a hemophiliac. She adopted two cats from a lady. one of these cats was a biter and a scratcher. She kept bleeding from his bites. I told her to declaw him. She doesn't like declawing and I understood, but the difference was her life. Instead she let him be an indoor-outdoor cat. He got into something outside and died. The other cat was his littermate and he met a similar end.

This bothered her so much she decided not to get another cat. A stray adopted her recently and this seems to be working out.

Bertie is declawed. Not something I would have done. You would never know it to look at her paws. Some vet did a nice job. I have seen bad jobs on feet.

I think if the difference is some cat will be homeless or euthanized then the the lesser evil is to find a vet that will do a good job of declawing.

I think we need to have a ban on free-breeding pets until the population is under control. I have a breeder friend that would throw flames at me for that one. However she is a responsible breeder and shows her cats.

I think a ban on declawing is a good idea. But let's reduce the pet population to manageable levels, and perhaps then a ban on declawing would be able to take force.

I think I will leave on the flame-retardant suit for a while.