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

[jsmirman]

59. How does this make any sense?

I am the caretaker of a lovely and loving cat. He is, of course, a found cat - thus, I have removed one animal from the overpopulated ranks of cats and dogs. My cat was neutered, and so I contribute zero animals to animal overpopulation. He is extremely happy and leads what I think any fair judge would say is a pretty excellent life.

The animals that are already left out there, if left to their own devices, will continue to increase the overpopulation numbers to ever more catastrophic levels:

http://www.humanesociety.org/issues/pet_overpopulation/

http://www.alleycat.org/page.aspx?pid=667 (this link suggests that spaying and neutering actually IS positive for the animals involved)

Please explain the glorious scenario that you believe your thinking will lead to.

What you are advocating is turning a blind eye to the animal overpopulation issue, and allowing those animals to suffer with increased numbers leading to competition for the already meager resources that "sustain" them (their lifespan is woefully short and is, more often than not, filled with suffering and privation).

"Your argument is not false" - your argument is a fucking argument. Me? I favor actually trying to do something about the situation because I *do* care about both the animals that are out there and the animals that will be born in the next minutes and hours and will enter an increasingly cruel world.