[Sca-cooks] (OOP) Declawing

[El Hermoso Dormido]

There is a much milder operation available that I rarely hear about,
unfortunately.

Instead of completely ripping out the cats claws (which IS quite painful
for the cat, from what the vet told us), they can instead just clip the
tendon that extends the claws in the first place.

This does leave the cat with claws, but being unable to extend them, it
limits the amount of damage they can do drastically.  It is apparently
not a particulary painful or drastic operation, unlike full "declawing".

We haven't had either of these operations done to any of our cats,
though one of them continues to sorely tempt us...

Signed,
El Hermoso Dormido - sweeper of shredded cardboard box bits...

On Tuesday 25 June 2002 11:03 pm, Wanda Pease wrote:
> I had this done to a cat once before I had any idea what it entailed.  I
> will never, never, never do it again!  It an appallingly painful thing to
> the animal who needs to walk on those feet, and therefore risks infection
> (spent $200 more curing the infection).  I'll get clawable furniture first!
> I'm sure there is some what we could get Martha Stewart to make it all the
> rage.
[...]
> > Just as inhumane as lopping cat's ending digit joints off to 'declaw'
>
> them.
>
> > How would you like to have all of your fingers and toes lopped off at the
> > end joint?
> >
> > margali