Great post! I was aware of all the complications that can come from declawing a cat but it's still terrible to read about people doing that to their pets. I actually saw a reminder of this in an unlikely place, a children's movie, Puss in Boots, where one of the cats, Kitty Soft Paws, had had her claws removed by her previous owner and she was scarred forever by it. I don't think there's ever a really good reason for people to declaw their cats and most people do it out of sheer laziness in not wanting to train their cats not to claw their furniture. Personally I see no benefit to it and I'm content with merely clipping my cats' nails myself as needed.
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