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Offline Mo

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I Watched a Front Declaw
« on: May 04, 2012, 06:28:11 PM »
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.jpg

To 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.
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Re: I Watched a Front Declaw
« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2012, 06:33:25 PM »
Thanks for the links, but I'll take your word for it.  I feel soooooo badly for you...   grouphug
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Re: I Watched a Front Declaw
« Reply #2 on: May 05, 2012, 11:22:56 AM »
The day that procedure is banned worldwide will be one day to rejoice for a long time... I don't even want to try to imagine what it's like to watch one, I'd probably lose it. grouphug
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Re: I Watched a Front Declaw
« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2012, 05:37:12 PM »
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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.jpg

I see those sold in stores!!!  THAT is what is used to declaw...seriously?
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Re: I Watched a Front Declaw
« Reply #4 on: May 05, 2012, 05:55:32 PM »
I see those sold in stores!!!  THAT is what is used to declaw...seriously?

It sure looked just like that.  Maybe it was slightly different (I didn't look to closely) but the same design.

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Re: I Watched a Front Declaw
« Reply #5 on: May 05, 2012, 06:06:30 PM »
If I recall, the ones sold in stores are sold as nail trimmers, but it would not surprise me in the least if they had re-purposed them for this barbarism.
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Re: I Watched a Front Declaw
« Reply #6 on: May 05, 2012, 07:57:11 PM »
If I recall, the ones sold in stores are sold as nail trimmers, but it would not surprise me in the least if they had re-purposed them for this barbarism.

Barbarism...major understatement! 
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Re: I Watched a Front Declaw
« Reply #7 on: May 06, 2012, 04:56:07 PM »
Thanks for the links, but I'll take your word for it.  I feel soooooo badly for you...   grouphug

Ditto.  I am SO sorry you had to witness that.   grouphug grouphug grouphug grouphug grouphug grouphug grouphug
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Re: I Watched a Front Declaw
« Reply #8 on: May 06, 2012, 05:03:51 PM »
 :-X :-X :-X     So sorry that, not only do you have to go with the flow amidst such utter curruption, but must also endure such emotonal abuse. Guess it's not so far from what the Mafia families went through....(Mafia far fetched? think about it....)
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