05/12/2026
Sigh...Last week we posted this photo of a veterinarian finishing up a declaw procedure and asked veterinary professionals to contact us if they work at a clinic that declaws cats and hate being part of it. Declawing not only brutally harms cats but it also causes serious moral stress to veterinary staff who are opposed to this animal cruelty. Yes, we are trying to help protect cats AND humans from the harm from declawing. https://citythekitty.org/is-the-angst-of-declawing-contributing-to-veterinarian-suicide/
One of the regulars who frequently comes onto our page to attack us commented again, repeating his claim that if declawing is banned, more cats will be euthanized and that their deaths would somehow be “on our hands.” He seems to want to ignore another fact: declawed cats are often abandoned or surrendered to shelters because of the behavioral problems caused by their mutilated paws. Many are euthanized because they can’t find new homes. By his logic, are those cats, on HIS hands?
And just to be clear, despite repeatedly making this claim, he has never provided any real data, studies, or evidence to support it. None. Humans evolve. When people learn that declawing is an inhumane amputation that can cause lifelong pain and suffering, they choose the humane alternatives instead. Also, as far as seniors on blood thinners or health issues, none of the human health or veterinary organizations recommend declawing for this reason as declawed cats often bite and become aggressive which is ten times more dangerous to a human. Cat overpopulation and high euthanasia rates are driven almost entirely by the failure to spay and neuter cats, not by declawing bans and countries and cities that have banned declawing have seen no increase in shelter intakes or euthanasias as a result.
We even encouraged him to send us any legitimate research so we could forward it to the organizations working on anti-declawing legislation and make sure his concerns were reviewed. We still haven’t received anything. Here are his exact words so PLEASE educate him on the FACTS. "Yes ! Lets make even more cats unwanted and create issues for all the rescues/shelters.
Those euthanized cats lost souls are on your hands" and "I've been thru these numbers with city before and showed beyond a doubt that more cats will be euthanized of declawing is made illegal before the overpopulation is controlled.
You don't want to see it but thousands upon thousands of cats are euthanized in the UK every year due to overpopulation.
You need to dig deep into their public information but its listed.
The government no kill shelters "transfer" sick, injured and longer time sheltered not wanted cats to private shelters that euthanize them.
I've done the home work, I've presented it on these pages only to have it deleted by the page admins because they have an agenda.
I've always said that declawing should be illegal AFTER the population is at least close to being under control.
I see many senior centers with therapy cats, I've provided funding for those programs in 38 of them now.
Almost everyone in these assisted living centers are on blood thinners, and have typical thinning skin.
Getting a scratch could easily kill them in very short time.
But I also see how these cats really help them mentally as well.
However, liability laws wouldn't allow it with cats that have claws, and yes we go to the shelters to find cats that are already declawed and contrary to what y'all are being told there are not a bunch of declawed cats in the shelters or rescues in our area.
Then you have others that for one reason or another medically can't have pets with nails that could scratch and tips aren't a 100% solution to that.
Again.... I'm not endorsing declawing but I am supporting a way to help seniors and others a way to feel needed and loved by an animal that is reciprocated at least until the population is under control.
Every week I hear from rescues that are buried and ready to give up because people keep leaving cats at their back door with notes about trying the shelters but they're full and these people don't know what else to do so they're just dropped off. Just last month a lady running her rescue for 22 years threw the towel in because there was never an end to the overcrowding.
Many rescues have 4,5 and even 6 cats to a space thats meant for 1 maybe 2 cats.
Just what do you think will happen to the cats that are declawed and have homes now ? Sure some would still get cats but at least a large number wouldn't and those cats would be added to the system in the US where that means more euthanized cats." Nope, sorry Donald, facts matter- https://citythekitty.org/declawing-facts-vs-myths-humane-options is
