Cat mom refuses to declaw her cat after family insists that she must in order to “keep their dogs safe”: ‘It genuinely makes me sick even thinking about [it]’

Declawing cats should be illegal. We will not be accepting any other opinion on our site.

When we were kids, we had two cats. Our parents declawed them. We were too young to understand what the cats went through after that, but once we learned what it did to them, we vowed never to accept declawing ever again.

But you have to give our parents a little grace, it was a different time in the 1990s. In that time, it was seen as a common veterinary purrcedure. It was even recommended as a solution for cats scratching furniture and to prevent scratching injuries. There wasn't nearly as much criticism on declawing back then as there is now.

Now, declawing has been outlawed in over 40 countries and is being banned in more states as years go on. And yet, some people still remain in that 90s mindset that it's just a routine practice that doesn't affect cats at all. These people are wrong, because now we know that it's much more harmful than simply removing their claws. The equivalent in hoomans of the declawing operation would be like taking off your whole finger until the knuckle. Doesn't sound so harmless now, does it?

So when this cat mom's family demanded she get her cat declawed to "keep their dogs" safe, we're glad to hear that she isn't even entertaining the thought. Some people just don't want to learn, and as hard as you might try, you can't teach someone who doesn't want to learn. Leave those people behind, even if it might be your own family.

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It saddens us that so many people still think this way. These people have clearly never expurrienced the pure love of a cat, especially a cat who feels safe and loved. Cats aren't as naturally social as dogs, but it doesn't take much to earn a cat's trust, just some patience. We guess a lot of people are lacking patience these days, but that's a whole other rant that we shouldn't even start here.
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Purrsonally, we never saw our cats as more aggressive after their declawing when we were kids, but our memories of that time are also a bit fuzzy. Our cats also lived in a house with two kids, two parents, and three dogs. The cats tolerated the dogs, but looking back on it, they definitely would have been nicer if the dogs hadn't been around.
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