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From: marauder@fluke.UUCP (Bill Landsborough)
Newsgroups: net.pets
Subject: Re: Kitty speaks out on declawing cats...
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Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 18:28:53 EDT
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I too have been watching and reading and have to tell my side.  I have two
cats, both declawed because they were exclusivly indoor cats.  But we moved
to the country so now their outdoor/indoor cats.  We declawed them because
they were ruining the furniture and I felt that they would go through less
pain from the operation than they were going through with me swatting them
when they clawed things.  Yeh, I spank my cats, my dogs, my horse, and my
children when they need dicipline!  It is in love that I dicipline.
   Anyway, my male cat, declawed and all, is the BULLY of the neighborhood!
I'm not implying that he is mean, I'm saying that he is a better fighter
BECAUSE he has been declawed.  A "normal" cat with claws is swinging away
with his claws and inflicting scratches while my clawless cat is going for
the throat with his fangs while he is hooking his paws around the back of
the opponent.  
   I have had to apologize to my neighbors because my clawless cat is 
cleaning house!  So please don't tell me about those defenseless, clawless
cats.  I own one.

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