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eet <te@re.p> wrote in message news:<MPG.19f4695d2c33a38998a574@news.alt.net>...
> In article <Ypqib.8069$x97.3872@clgrps13>, The_Real_ET@hotmail.com 
> says...
> > I would consider de-clawing to be more like removing a humans nails,
> > wouldn't it be?
> > Would you still be able to use your fingers? I think so.
> 
> There is no way to compare declawing a cat to removing a human's 
> fingernails or any other part of a human's fingers, because a cat's paws 
> and a human's hands are totally different.
> 
> If you want to make comparisons between those things, then you need to 
> make fantastic leaps of imagination, like this:  Imagine that the very 
> end of your finger is nothing but solid nail, on a sort of hinge so you 
> can swing it forward and backward as needed.  Most of the time you keep 
> it back, where it is unused and out of the way, but you swing it forward 
> to scratch things.  Now you have the equivalent of cat claws.  Now 
> imagine that you lose the ability to swing the claws forward; they are 
> permanently swept back.  Everything is exactly the same as it ever was, 
> except that you cannot scratch things.  Now you are the equivalent of a 
> declawed cat.
> 
> > If it is going to
> > be strictly
> > an indoor cat and it's ripping your furniture apart, why not?
> 
> Indeed.

I think you are right. No cat declawing compares to fingernail
removings. I am not an expert but i think it is common knowledge. The
cats are very sensitive. People who think this kind of behavour is
right should re- think.