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Submitted by Ms_Anthrope on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 6:34pm.
MoonwarriorsTHE FACTS ABOUT DECLAWING:Feline Amputation - "Onychectomy"What You Really Need To KnowThe CatThe cat is born with claws as a means of defense. Large cats as well as small cats use their claws to hunt with, to burrow with, and to fight with. Taking a cat's claws away from them will lead to death if the animal is left outside. If you are thinking about having your cat de-clawed, think of this first: How would you survive correctly if you had no fingers?The Cats ClawsUnlike most mammals who walk on the soles of the paws or feet, cats are digitigrade, which means they walk on their toes. Their back, shoulder, paw and leg joints, muscles, tendons, ligaments and nerves are naturally designed to support and distribute the cat's weight across its toes as it walks, runs and climbs. A cat's claws are used for balance, for exercising, and for stretching the muscles in their legs, back, shoulders, and paws. They stretch these muscles by digging their claws into a surface and pulling back against their own clawhold - similar to isometric exercising for humans. This is the only way a cat can exercise, stretch and tone the muscles of its back and shoulders. The toes help the foot meet the ground at a precise angle to keep the leg, shoulder and back muscles and joints in proper alignment. Removal of the last digits of the toes drastically alters the conformation of their feet and causes the feet to meet the ground at an unnatural angle that can cause back pain similar to that in humans caused by wearing improper shoes.Understanding Declawing (Onychectomy)The anatomy of the feline claw must be understood before one can appreciate the severity of declawing. The cat's claw is not a nail as is a human fingernail, it is part of the last bone (distal phalanx) in the cat's toe. The cats claw arises from the unguicular crest and unguicular process in the distal phalanx of the paw (see above diagram). Most of the germinal cells that produce the claw are situated in the dorsal aspect of the ungual crest. This region must be removed completely, or regrowth of a vestigial claw and abcessation results. The only way to be sure all of the germinal cells are removed is to amputate the entire distal phalanx at the joint.Contrary to most people's understanding, declawing consists of amputating not just the claws, but the whole phalanx (up to the joint), including bones, ligaments, and tendons! To remove the claw, the bone, nerve, joint capsule, collateral ligaments, and the extensor and flexor tendons must all be amputated. Thus declawing is not a simple, single surgery but 10 separate, painful amputations of the third phalanx up to the last joint of each toe. A graphic comparison in human terms would be the cutting off of a person's finger at the last joint of each finger. 
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Clearly cruel and unusual treatment of a little animal
When stuffed stuff and stuff is more important than giving an animal a painfree, torture free life. People who do this to living creatures should not be allowed to keep animals or practice veterinary medicine, imo. Let them start a stuffed animal business instead -- that's their attitude in the first place, that the animals are just toys, without any inegrity and identity separate from humans.
To do this to a cat is so self-centered of the humans -- leaving the cat defenseless should it ever need to escape to tree or defend itself, or even feed itself. All the human thinks about is HIS egocentric notion of his needs, and cares nothing for the cat's natural needs.
Every Vet client who considers this as an "option"(how cold that word is), should have to see these pictures. And if they still insist on doing it, they should have to experience the removal of one of their human finger nails!
AND THANK YOU, Ms_A, for this GREAT NEWS:
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Declawing Cats is actually illegal in: France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Australia, Brazil, England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and recently Los Angles.
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It shows there is HOPE.
The last vet I went to refused to do them, and that was reassuring, too.
I think it's just West Hollywood with the ban...
those are really gross pictures...
Kitty Auschwitz (aka Texas Tech University)
http://www.peta.org/FeatureCatIntubation.asp
got some seriously bad publicity last year when PETA discovered that the school’s Health Sciences Center was buying homeless cats from local shelters and using them in medical training. According to PETA’s Action Center:
“The cats are forced to undergo painful intubation procedures in which hard plastic tubes are repeatedly forced down their wind pipes by course participants. This can result in bleeding, swelling, scarring of the animals’ throat tissue, collapsed lungs and even death.”
Recently, Texas-born actor Woody Harrelson got on board and wrote a letter expressing his thoughts to Texas Tech President John Baldwin. In the letter, Woody says:
“Harming and killing shelter animals for these exercises is unjustifiable, especially as realistic manikins that more accurately represent human anatomy and better prepare medical professionals to treat injured and sick children are readily available . . . I and countless others around the state are deeply discouraged to learn that Texas Tech is taking advantage of the tragic abundance of abandoned animals.”
Woody’s letter
http://www.helpinganimals.com/f-woodyHarrelson.asp
YEA WOODY re: Kitty Auschwitz (aka Texas Tech University)
This is a constant trauma, especially in Texas & the mid-west states... and shoot, even here in some places in CA,
where Unwanted SHELTERED ANIMALS ARE GIVEN AWAY TO BE Experimented On.
I think the Powerful Bird Lobbyist is pushing this ....
Texas Tech & Gonzo..
Also,Texas Tech gave Gonzo a job recently..
What a Screwed Up University..
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