I am never going to flame someone online for their opinion. The best I can do, is state my reasons why i'm against it rationally, and listen to other views on the subject. The key is to talk, discuss, challenge, and listen.
People can argue up and down about behavioural problems, pain imposed by the procedure, etc. etc.
My base reason for being against declawing is that you are altering an animal for your own purpose. You are not doing it for the improvement of the animal. When you choose to have a cat in your home you are it's guardian. You are it's voice and you take responsibility for it. And by your decisions, you are choosing the life that the animal will follow.
What ever happened to training animals not to scratch? To looking at other options (softclaws etc) before proceeding with this procedure. It just sickens me when people don't even try to train the cat and just go ahead with this procedure. In my opinion, that is not looking after the welfare of that animal.
Twisterdog stated:
"So ...you tell me ... what's better? A declawed cat in a loving home? Or a clawed cat dead on top of a pile of clawed cats in the city landfill?"
A cat that is not altered and living with it's own facilities in tact is the option. I'll tell you that as long as there are people who easily allow this procedure to be done without educating the client first, this will continue to be the status quo.
I truly believe that declawing should not be the first thing that pops into someone's mind when they look at adopting a kitten. The person who is adopting should have to educate themselves first and/ or be shown how to properly handle and train an animal before any adoption should take place.
Again, this is only my opinion. Thanks for listening.
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