As seen on Amazon:
You know what’s more humane to a cat than a declaw? Holding a cat down every month while you glue some press-on nails on each and every one of its claws, that’s what!
I’m surprised that the “Customers Also Bought With This Item” section did not include gauze, bandages, and scale mail armor. (Not chain mail, because that catches the cat’s claws uncomfortably. Take my word for it.)
We recently integrated three cats into our household as house-only cats, and at first the veterinarian was not in favor of a declaw and counseled us lightly against it. But as the end of their first week of isolation in my office, I thought about them moving into the household where, as we enter middle age, we’re getting nice furniture, and I decided to blunt them.
In my mind, here’s the humane scale:
- They have a procedure, use special litter for a couple weeks, and get the run of the household with a loving family for the rest of their lives.
- They don’t get declawed, and we worry every day of our lives that they will damage something. And when they damage something, we mourn it and/or have it repaired and worry every day that they will damage it again and/or shred our other declawed cats, which they very well might.
- We either before or after something or somecat has been damaged place the bladed cats with someone else who might not take as good of care as them as we do.
- We wrestle with them every month to get these things on them.
Some people have strange ideas of the humane treatment of animals. Forcing a cat to take medicine is bad enough. This sounds like torture to both the humans and the cats.
But I have made the links above Amazon Associates links, just in case you disagree and I can profit from your naiveté.
