[FEL-L] Question for all

[GemOJungle at aol.com]

This is about a cruel and unjust action (declawing cats) taken  against an 
animal/s that will affect them for the rest of their lives. It can,  has, and 
will continue to be a problem with cats no matter what  vet performs the 
surgery. It can go wrong and it has many times. There  is no good way to do it. 
Perhaps there is a less painful and  often more successful way to do it, but the 
best vets can screw it up  and have. The AVA did not make the highly profitable 
surgery unethical  because they thought it sounded good.  They (the AVA) 
fought  over it for more than 15 years to make the only right decision, that  it is 
painful to the animal and many animals have a bad reaction no matter who,  
when, or how the surgery is done.
What looks alright now may be a disaster in 10 to 20 years.
 
Trained cats do not scratch often if ever.  If you can not Handle them  or 
their scratches, from their claws, leave them alone. It's not fair  to harm them 
because of your ignorance. A few people on this list think they  might know 
better than the choice of many hundreds of veterinarians,  zookeeper's and 
trainers that voted to stop declawing.  I can  only imagine this choice is made 
from ignorance and inexperience.  So many  choices people make about animals are 
just about emulating and copying what  they heard works, but this rarely 
works out best for the  animal.   
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