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- From: laurel.schippers@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (Laurel Schippers)
- Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
- Subject: RE: DECLAWING?
- Message-ID: <1669.110.uupcb@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 14:32:00 GMT
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- Organization: HAL 9000, W-NET HQ, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- Reply-To: laurel.schippers@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (Laurel Schippers)
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- from bron@iastate.edu
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- 96% of the feline owners giving up their cats for scratching problems
- will NEVER own another cat. The most common reason is the problems they
- had with their previous cat, and they don't want to try again with a new
- one.
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- Hm, interesting. I have two questions about these owners:
-
- 1) Why didn't they get the cats declawed BEFORE taking them to
- an animal shelter?
-
- 2) Why didn't they try claw-clipping or behavior training first?
-
- It seems to me that if your cat is an incorrigible scratcher,
- you get the cat declawed--you don't take the cat to an animal
- shelter to be killed. Sounds like those owners didn't want to
- be bothered by owning the cats anymore, really.
-
- Sure, it would be better if the HS offered low-cost declawing
- and spaying as well. But the problem seems primarily to be
- dumb owners.
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