My girlfriend and I are going to move into an apartment soon (in a couple months) but until then, we both live at home. She has a cat that her mom got her as a kitten (her sister also got a kitten, they’re from the same litter), and he is almost a year old now. Her mother is going to get Orion both front & back declawed, and there’s nothing my girlfriend can do about it, because she’s 18 and essentially has no say. She used to use claw caps, but nobody helps her put them on the cats. Advice?

kittyvines:

Ehhhhh I’m sorry, I really don’t know how to help! If she thinks the claw caps are too hard to put on, though, some pet stores and groomers will do it for you. Maybe try to look up some articles about how damaging it is to cat’s mental and physical health, and show them to her?

it still shocks me that any veterinarians are willing to declaw cats…. like, it seems like the kind of thing you should have to sneak into the Bad Part of Town (worse than where you buy drugs, worse than where you go to hire an assassin) but apparently otherwise decent-seeming people keep getting defenseless cats declawed and aren’t being pursued by law enforcement for it which WHY
I mean I’d call declawing barbaric but that’s hella insulting to barbarians