Cat declawing was Re: Mayonnaise (safety issues for whole egg home pasteuization)

From: Christina Websell (spamfree_at_tinawebsell.wanadoo.co.uk)
Date: 10/31/04 

Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 05:49:59 -0000

OK. excuse the top post, but this is what American vets still do to cats.
http://community-2.webtv.net/stopdeclaw/declawpics/

I'd like to ask all Americans who look at this to campaign for it to be
illegal in your country too, like it is almost everywhere else.

Tina

"Christina Websell" <spamfree@tinawebsell.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:2udhjrF2981jpU1@uni-berlin.de...
>
> "Hillary Israeli" <hillary@hillary.net> wrote in message
> news:slrnco32kg.di4.hillary@manx.misty.com...
>> In <41814589$0$2655$4c56ba96@master.news.zetnet.net>,
>> Mary Fisher <mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> *> James Herriot was the pen name of Alfred Wight. Siegfried Farnan was
>> the
>> *> name Wight chose to use in place of his actual boss, Dr. Donald
>> Sinclair.
>> *> The books by Wight/Herriot were thinly disguised, and populated by
>> actual
>> *> patients and clients. You might be interested in the biography written
>> by
>> *> Alf Wight's son Jim....
>> *
>> *Ahem. I live in Herriot country.
>>
>> Well, you claimed he was a fictional character and expressed no knowledge
>> of his basis in reality. What was I to think? That you were secretly
>> expert on the matter but choosing to be obscure, or that perhaps you
>> didn't know?
>>
>> *> *You still de-claw cats?
>> *>
>> *> I have never declawed a cat, although I am willing to do it for
>> medical
>> *> reasons such as immune mediated nail bed disease or whatever - it
>> hasn't
>> *> been necessary for me to do so. I would not declaw for elective
>> purposes.
>> *> I will refer to someone else if so required.
>> *
>> *So you are prepared to have it done ... although not by you ...
>>
>> I don't understand what you mean by that. "Prepared to have it done?" I'm
>> aware that it is legal, and that it would be illegal for me to try to
>> prevent someone else from doing it - or at least, a violation of the
>> practice act. What IS your point?
>
> I suspect it is this. Cats come with claws front and back. If you can't
> cope with that, don't get a cat. Declawing is illegal here, and as far as
> I'm concerned it should be illegal worldwide. I think is absolutely
> disgusting to declaw a cat.
> Do you realise how much difficulty front declawed cats have using the
> litterbox?
> Or perhaps the furniture is more important, eh? Remember that when you
> refer a cat on to be declawed.
> Hillary, you seem to get quite annoyed when you are challenged. It isn't
> necessary. It's quite possible to debate a point here without lost
> tempers.
> We all have our opinions, and I'd like to think that we can debate here
> without acrimony.
>
> Tina
>
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>
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>

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