To ban or not to ban? More people believing declawing is animal abuse

[davsand]

36. I do not like the idea of declawing cats. Having said that, I did have one declawed years ago.

She was a rescue, and she was, to be blunt, a vicious cat. I lived for a year with that cat and my hands and arms looked like hamburger. It came down to the point that she was so aggressive I was either gonna have to have her put down or else have her declawed. The local shelter would not have even tried to adopt her out and I knew that a surrender was a death sentence. After one especially brutal attack, I took her back to the vet and her vet was very blunt with me that he felt there were no other alternatives.

Tillie(You Bitch) was a beautiful medium haired tabby that had the most amazing green eyes you have ever seen. Sometimes she could be a most loving cat, sometimes she would attack me as I walked into a room. She had been horribly abused as a kitten and never did recover fully. I was able to bring her back to physical health but her relationship with humans was damaged terribly. I could not feel right about having her euthanized--I figured she'd been betrayed by humans enough already.

I hated it at the time, still feel bad about doing it, but it was the only thing I could do. She lived with me for 17 years until her kidneys failed.



Laura