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From: alle@ihuxb.UUCP (Marguerite Czajka)
Newsgroups: net.pets
Subject: Declawing and pain
Message-ID: <1123@ihuxb.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 09:34:36 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 29 09:34:36 1985
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> 	During their postoperative recovery period (about 10 days) the cats
> did experience some minor bleeding and distress, but all rapidly healed without
> complication.  

This person was not against declawing but this line prompted me to write.
I haven't had much experience with cats besides the 2 I have now.  I found
them untrainable when it came to scratching so I had them declawed.  I felt
pretty guilty but when they came home after 1 night at the vet (he kept them
together since that's what they were used to) they were fine.  They seemed to
be in no pain and walked normally.  Is it unusual that they recovered quickly?

The only adverse reaction was when one tried to climb the curtain and slid
down instead.  Since then they've learned to climb door jambs and their scratching
post (it's about 7 ft. tall with a platform at the top).  They also "scratch"
at everything they can get their paws on.