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Claw Cutting Tutorial

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Modelled here by the lovely Freya

Random I know. A friend of mine is trying to persuade her dad not to have her kitten declawed. This is the kind and painless alternative but she was a little nervous about doing it so I said I’d make a tutorial on how it’s done.

Declawing is a cruel mutilation of a cat’s body for selfish reasons, where a cat’s claws are surgically removed. The operation involves amputating the end bone of each digit, the equivalent of removing the tips of all your fingers. It is incredibly painful and takes weeks to recuperate from. Often the cat suffers a permanent personality change, becomes lethargic and stops doing anything involving scratching, including using a litter box. Permanent damage to the tendons is also not uncommon, where the cat suffers intense pain from walking, and usually has to be put to sleep. Declawed cat cannot defend themselves when attacked by dogs or other cats, they have great difficulty balancing, walking and cannot climb, stretch or groom properly. A cat is designed to walk on its toes, but declawed cats do not have all of their toes and so suffer continuous discomfort, the same way you might by wearing too small shoes. In effect you are robbing a cat from being a cat.

The worse thing is damage caused by cat scratching is easy to avoid especially if you are starting with a kitten which hasn't developed bad habits yet. Buy a scratch pole and watch it for scratching, when it does, pick it up immediately and put it on the scratch pole. Sometimes running that cats paws gently down the post a few times is also helpful and always praise the cat for using it. If there’s a particularly bad spot, put the post near it and spray the spot with a commercial anti-scratch solution, wipe with a vaseline product like Vick, or use double sided sticky tape. Cats are intelligent animals and soon learn what is expected. If you are so worried about damage while training your cat, please cut the claws as above, it won’t stop the behaviour by itself, but it does prevent damage. If you are worried about the cat scratching you, handle and play with it often. The only way it can learn you are fragile is by experience.

Thank you for reading and if you were considering declawing your cat, hopefully this may have changed your mind.

Here are some quick informal videos about the subject, they contain no offensive clips because that would just be wrong.
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BaconMagic's avatar
This is the cutest tutorial I ever came across. XD