not trying to start a fight but..

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The reason declawed cats go faster is not because of behavior. It is because they come already mutilated and the people don't have to deal with getting their toes amputated and watching them go through excruciating pain.

I've been working in adoption at shelters for 3 years now. People DO take declawed cats faster regardless of temperament. I've seen people fighting over a declawed cat we had because each family had just bought new furniture. None of them had even visited with the cat or any others. They then each visited with the cat and were bitten by the cat. The cat cowered in the corner of the room and wanted nothing to do with them. Guess what? They both still wanted the cat.

I'm not trying to argue with you because I almost always really agree with everything you say. I am just saying that I have had experience with hundreds (maybe thousands) of declawed cats also and I am not making up what I said in my previous post.


(Opps, I wrote this when I was in a hurry. Although declawed cats do go pretty fast here, it is nowhere near the rate how you say it is where you are. Regardless of the fact, if declawing were illegal, all the cats would be on an equal playing field and maybe people would judge on PERSONALITY and not mutilations).