[FEL-L] Question for all

[Cheetahtu at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/7/2006 7:52:26 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
GemOJungle at aol.com writes:
 
This is one man's option .  I do not think it fair that  he say such things.  
I know of trained cats that do scratch and have hurt  people.  I also know 
hundreds of Veterinarians that do this surgery and  there have never been any 
after repairs or harm done to the animal, including  lions, tigers, leopards, 
and the smaller cats even 15 or 20 years later.  I  also know a lot of animal 
trainers that would not work their animals if they  were not declawed.  This is 
to protect the actors that they must work with  here in California.  Some of 
the actors are really stupid and they just  don't know any better.  I remember 
years ago when I was doing a picture  with Ros Russel and I told her not to 
jiggle her coustume, she was wearing  around one of my cats so as not to scare 
him and she shook her body, which made  all of the beads on her dress fly in 
different directions and of course it  scared my cat.  The cat would not go near 
her again and did not work in  that scene.  This was a very sweet and tame 
cat too.  I am not  ignorant or inexperienced.  I have worked these cats for 
over 50 years now  and I do take issue with this comment.  None of my animals 
have ever  suffered from the declaw.  As I said before-------it all depends on 
your  vet.  He must have the experience and know what he is doing.  I hope  that 
you never get hurt.  Look what happened to Roy and he was very  experienced.  
No matter how good your cats are, you must remember that they  are wild 
animals and they can never be 100% trusted.  If you think so, you  can get hurt.

 
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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