Posted by Patricia on June 21, 2001 at 22:08:34:
In Reply to: Re: Cat nails posted by Mary on June 21, 2001 at 20:20:09:
People have a huge problem with spaying a cat as well, they believe that reproduction is a natural thing to happen. So if I want to spay my cats to prevent the birth of more cats that may wind up be abused or rejected then I shouldn't get a cat because I am changing a natural function of the cat. Or how about having my dog fixed so no more puppies will have to suffer the hip dysplasia he suffers from. God made them to reproduce, maybe he knows better and I should have just left things as they were and let more animals suffer. There are two sides to every story.
I know a guy that just spent ten days in the hospital because a cat he was tending to scratched his arm. An infection set in that the doctors had a great difficulty getting rid of. After the ten days on "IV" he had to return everyday for the next two weeks to be hooked up to an "IV" until the infection was gone. If he hadn't gone in when he did there was a great possiblity that he could have lost his arm. When the owners got home and found out what happened they had both of their cats declawed. This was done to prevent anymore people from going through what the guy went through. But to go by what you say maybe they should have put their animals down instead of messing with what god made.