Have we created a market for what I would personally consider a very painful surgery? Cat declawing.
In my understanding, declawing does not belong to a kitten package, including tigers, lions and cheetahs, and I can not think of anything that is more harmful for a cat.
Why are some of cats declawed? and the answers across families were because it supposedly makes them safer to work with, or protect furniture from damage, but there are other ways to do so. Cats got crippled after surgery.
One day a TV show I watched (called paw project) a declawed mountain lion was died, and thinking maybe the mountain lion is free and does not have to feel that pain anymore, and within a week two other mountain lions died, both of them had been suffering from being declawed and one of them was basically walking on his elbows.
What was shocking was the amount of nail that was growing under his skin, and we used to call it a pebble in a shoe. But this was really like Gibraltar, for him to have to walk on that ( bone chips I called left behind after declawed).
Over 22 million U.S. cats declawed, declawing is not a weight issue, a 10-pound cat can suffer from declawing as much as 1 100-pound cougar. It is an amputation. No matter what size animal it is, it needs to have his toes and by amputation them, there is going to be problems.
I think one of the most marvelous things about the cat is the claws. It is so important to them, it is intrinsic to who they are, it is part of what I call the paw cat, and for their balance also.
The human hand and the cat paw are very similar, in that we both have 3 bones. The major difference is that in our hands the nail grows from skin, whereas in the cat paw the nail grows from the 3rd phalanx, It grows from the bone. The most common way of declawing a cat is to use what 's called nail clippers, and these were actually invented just to trim the nails on a cat or dog, but they are used to declaw a cat by slipping the entire nail and the last bone in the cat's toe through the guillotine and snipping it off. Now, that would be the equivalent of taking these cigar cutters and slipping a person's finger through and cutting the whole last bone off.
Other methods including using a laser, it is actually just the same as using a scalpel. It is an amputation of the last bone in the cat's toe.
In an attempt to offer a way to stop a cat from clawing furniture, but not declawing the cat. Cat Declawing is not advised, It does no good for the animal. Stop doing it.
Declawing is now officially banned in 8 U.S. cities.