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In article <Xns940478BC532DCretsildivad33hotmail@68.6.19.6>, 
retsildivad33@hotmail.com says...
> pat <pat@my.head> wrote in news:MPG.19e0ef6fcdccf63b98a4ec@news.alt.net:
> 
> > In article <Xns9404579312524retsildivad33hotmail@68.6.19.6>, 
> > retsildivad33@hotmail.com says...
> >> Mark Buckles <mark@mark.buckles.moc> wrote in
> >> news:oprv639nmi39ut8p@news.dslextreme.com: 
> >> 
> >> > De-clawing is amputation. The equivalent procedure on a human would
> >> > involve cutting off the tips of all the fingers at the last joint.
> >> 
> >> So what. They do just fine without it.
> > 
> > After a cat is declawed, it's just like the animal has its claws 
> > permanently retracted.  BFD.
> 
> These people whining about mutilation are usually big proponents of spaying 
> and neuering cats as if that wasn't a far more invasive procedure.

The people whining about mutilation are thinking that it would feel very 
odd and uncomfortable to have the ends of their fingers chopped off, not 
understanding that comparing that to a declawed cat's paw is simply not 
logical, to wit: The ends of their fingers are not retractable, but cat 
claws are kept retracted (and hence useless) most of the time; 
therefore, amputating the end of a human finger is liable to seem more 
traumatic to a person than losing a claw would seem to a cat.

/pretty sure that went waaaaaaaay over the heads of all the cat zealots