Declawing Your Cat - NO!

This should be the last option for a cat owner as you are removing an integral part of the cat - sort of like pulling out your own fingernails. Its is not a natural or health-saving procedure, and a declawed cat may undergo a severe personality change.

Declawing should only be considered to prevent a cat from becoming destructive to its surroundings, people or other pets, and only after all other options have failed.

A declawed cat can never return to the outdoors without constant human supervision and protection. A declawed cat is defenseless.

Options to declawing include:

Related links:

http://www.geocities.com/jandcathouse/declaw.htm. Declawing information and links.

Talk To the Vet

Association of Veterinarians for Animal Rights

The Facts about Declawing

Educate Don't Amputate

Declawing

Rescue Links

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