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Offline Lola

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Will His Claws Be Saved?
« on: July 22, 2015, 02:01:33 PM »
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PHIL MUST HAVE TONS OF FRIENDS ON FACEBOOK ! OK OK OK !!!!  I hear you loud and clear about the de-clawing thing. It's not too late and your making me totally rethink the whole process. That can wait. Give me a couple ideas on how to get him to stop scratching and I'll try it. Note: He has 10 scratch poles and never uses them. BUT he does have to have this Tumor on his leg removed today. Does anyone know what could cause a tumor on an 8 year old cat ?



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Re: Will His Claws Be Saved?
« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2015, 02:14:02 PM »
I can't figure out if he's NOT had any amputated yet, or if he's already had 2 of them on front amputated???
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Re: Will His Claws Be Saved?
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2015, 02:15:34 PM »
I can't figure out if he's NOT had any amputated yet, or if he's already had 2 of them on front amputated???

He was considering the front paws.
When Carman first posted, I assumed the vet would do the declaw at the same time as the tumor removal.  Nope.  Thank GOODNESS!
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Re: Will His Claws Be Saved?
« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2015, 02:17:54 PM »
As far as the leg tumor, I was thinking vaccination area. 
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Re: Will His Claws Be Saved?
« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2015, 02:43:29 PM »
K. Thank you. I never could find the first post when it all first started.

And then I saw several comments about he hadn't done it yet, and then one that he'd had 2 removed. I couldn't figure it out.
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Re: Will His Claws Be Saved?
« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2015, 02:44:49 PM »


K. Thank you. I never could find the first post when it all first started.


It is the first part on Carman's page.  It is pinned. 
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Re: Will His Claws Be Saved?
« Reply #6 on: July 22, 2015, 02:45:59 PM »
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PHIL, THE 18 POUND GANGSTER, IS IN SURGERY TODAY ! Maybe you might have some insight on this one. After 8 years of peace love and happiness Phil decides he's going to rip up all the furniture with his claws. I got 10 different cat things he can scratch but only the best furniture will do. So after 12 months of sure-fire tricks to get him to stop have failed and a shredded couch and love seat, he's getting his front two paws declawed today. He's an indoor cat. But they also found a tumor on his left leg and have to remove it. When I pick him up he'll be unable to jump, hop and cause mayhem for 10 days. Plus he'll be on morphine too. I'm serious. I have to be his dealer / caregiver while he's high on drugs. Has anyone gone through this with your cat or understand why, after 8 years out of the blue, he would become obsessed with the furniture ?

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PHIL MUST HAVE TONS OF FRIENDS ON FACEBOOK ! OK OK OK !!!! . I hear you loud and clear about the de-clawing thing. It's not too late and your making me totally rethink the whole process. That can wait. Give me a couple ideas on how to get him to stop scratching and I'll try it. Note: He has 10 scratch poles and never uses them. BUT he does have to have this Tumor on his leg removed today. Does anyone know what could cause a tumor on an 8 year old cat ?
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Re: Will His Claws Be Saved?
« Reply #7 on: July 22, 2015, 02:49:07 PM »
Ohhhh...I saw the edited version, but not the first.
"In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semihuman. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog." Edward Hoagland
"Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog; but you're never friendless ever, if you have a dog."

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