Oh my goodness - it is totally barbaric! I am going have visions of that in my head of that for years.
I knew it was bad, but having to stand there and watch it, makes me hate declawing even more.
http://community-2.webtv.net/stopdeclaw/declawpics/ is pictures of the procedure. What they don't show? Blood streaming out of where the claws where. Seriously, there was blood coming out like crazy, and over everything. The one I saw was on a cat with white feet, so that made it even worse, because you could see it.
Apparently it was worse than "normal" (as far as blood) because the cat was already an adult, but really? Your chopping the cats toes off with a nail clippers, it is horrid no matter what.
If you don't want to open the link, this is what they use to cut the nails/toes off:
http://www.jmbrady.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/3ffb82a0887519e3d0ce10a3f593a87d/w/6/w6105.jpgTo top it off, the cat was screaming in pain for a while while it was waking up.
I think I'm going to go puke now...or scream...or both.