It baffles me that a notable number of cat owners have maimed their animal’s feet to save their furniture, but that these same people are apparently were always either indifferent or oblivious to their house constantly being covered in cat shit. Yes, your cat walks into it’s litter box and then walks around your house/ apartment. However, if anybody truly deserves to have their house covered in cat shit it’s the morons that paid somebody to cut off their poor cat’s toes to save their stupid couch!
—I’m so glad it’s been banned
This article appears in Sep 27 – Oct 3, 2018.
If I had known how cruel it was to declaw a cat I wouldn’t have let my parents talk me into it. Now that I am on my own I will make sure to never again do that to the next cat I own.
It should be banned. Shocked that vets are still doing this procedure — people are dumb but the ‘professionals’ should really know better by now.
I think its entirely possible to declaw cats without causing any undue harm or putting them at risk. The problem lies with irresponsible owners.
A law was passed last year that made it illegal to declaw cats in Nova Scotia. Many vets in HRM stopped doing it years ago when the high complication rate became evident, but now it is banned all together.