View Full Version : Proposed Ban on Declawing in N.Y.
Unkle Fuzzy
01-24-2015, 04:53 AM
^^^Just keeping my mouth shut.
(I don't know what I'm talking about)::)
audrey_k
01-24-2015, 08:34 AM
That sounds like a wonderful arrangement. He has a home and it solves the apartment issue. Much better than the deal my cat got where his family moved and took him back to the Humane Society. Then again it worked out for cat since he got a home (mine).
Yeah, I just couldn't bear the thought of giving him away. Having him be with a friend has been hard enough, I lived alone with him for a couple months and got him right after my BA so he was my support through recovery and became REALLY attached to him, more so than I've been to cats I've had in the past. Sometimes I feel selfish for sticking him with a friend, it's been difficult because the first friend I had said after 2 months that one of the girls she lived with's co signer wouldn't allow a cat, so he had to move to a new person again, he's moved a lot in his life. But he's pretty easy going, I've had cats who went through one move and it completely changed their personality forever, but he just adjusts and moves on. As long as he gets lots of attention he's fine.
I haven't seen him since before the holidays as it's a long way to visit, about 3 hours round trip (we're as far north in London as you can be and she's as far south as you can be) but I'm going to see him tomorrow as we have to pick him up and bring him to get spayed and he's going to stay for a couple days to recover. I'm excited to see him.
Nina_
01-24-2015, 08:37 AM
My cats are fat asses, they will eat almost anything. Whenever I get food for myself they lurk near my food like dogs. I have to be careful because I know there are plenty of foods that aren't good for them. They salivate whenever I get sushi but I can't feed them a lot of it.
With that said, the little one (I'm housing for a friend) has stolen chocolate bars from my purse and ate them. He appears to be fine. When I get carryout if I fall asleep and forget to put the carryout in the fridge, by the time I wake up the cat has eaten it. Shrimp pasta, burgers, Mexican food... whatever it is, Sheldon will eat it.
Unkle Fuzzy
01-24-2015, 09:43 AM
Nina,
The whole chocolate thing is blown out of proportion. I looked up chocolate toxicity inbdogs once after my boxer ate an entire box of pecan turtles. Milk chocolate required about 1 ounce of chocolate per pound to be toxic to dogs.
The raw fish, well canned cat food stinks so bad because it is partly pre-digested. Cats have difficulty digesting fresh fish.
Years ago my wife and I had a ginger tabby that would sit on her lap, and eat popcorn out of the bowl. She would reach over and hookva single piece of popcorn with a claw, set it in front of her, and eat it. Then she would reach in for another.
michele11
01-24-2015, 02:29 PM
^^^Just keeping my mouth shut.
(I don't know what I'm talking about)::)
If you know about breeding/ showing Persians please do tell...
michele11
01-24-2015, 02:33 PM
Cats in the wild DO drink water. They do get alot of the water content from their prey, but they also drink water naturally, make no mistake about that.
I'm going by what my research and vets have told me . They drank very little water. That's why if you feed dry food only or not raw it's important for your house cat to drink lots of water unless you want to end up with crystals and kidney problems. My male doesn't drink enough. So he gets goats milk and very high end soft food.
threlayer
02-07-2015, 07:46 PM
I've had a few cats I've dearly loved and received love back from them, unmistakenly. One got out into the road before I had a chance to train him; I got out in the road between him and a car, just to make sure we were both seen. My cats have always had names they responded promptly to. I would no sooner declaw a cat than I would run my fingers over an operating table saw. I value my furniture and the cat's health and comfort equally.
When I have a cat, I use a cat trimming tool from a pet shop, weekly is usually good enough. I have to get the confidence of my cat first, which has always been easy for me because I give them so much attention and encouragement. I play with their paws a few times first, talking to them gently and using their name, pressing on them lightly, then later when they pay no attention to what I am doing, I use the tool carefully. They see that it doesn't hurt,but you've got to be very careful because they have great memories. If they start getting fidgety, I let them go and try again just a bit later. After this conditioning for just a few weeks, they don't mind it at all. and everyone is happy.
I can tell you something else about cats: they are smarter than you think, they are trainable in several important ways, and they can love you more than you think. Makes me angry (and sad) when I see one hit beside the road, because that's just an avoidable disaster that that 'owner' didn't care to spend time training for. If yours is allowed outside, you really need to take lots of precautions. There's now a fox in my area and my next cat will be an indoor one.
I hope that declawing ban passes here, in spite of the expansion of government to try making people more responsible for what damage they do. NY govt currently has an aggressive campaign to reduce smoking. Since we have the highest Medicaid per taxpayer in the US, I support that effort as well. Without regulations and government effort, people will just continue exploiting and hurting each other and themselves; too bad laws just don't work better.
JessaJade
03-04-2015, 05:04 PM
I watched The Paw Project on Netflix today...declawing is even worse than I imagined it to be, it's barbaric.
Raziel
03-05-2015, 08:07 PM
Literally all you have to do with cats is get them plenty of stuff that it's OK to scratch on. I have two rescue cats and have not one mark on any of my furniture. When they started looking like they were going to scratch as kittens, they got either the keyring (A ring of useless or old keys thrown near by them, cats hate sudden noises) or the water-gun. Then grab them up and set them in front of the scratching post and start scratching at it myself. They didn't coin the word 'copycat' for nothing. Grind fresh catnip into the post, too. Keep on them about it, never allow them to get away with it, and they learn quickly. When one scratching post wears out, get another a.s.a.p. It's very easy.
There is no reason on earth to surgically alter a Cat (I say mutilate, frankly).
Not trying to be a jerk about it, but i feel very strongly about declawing for any reason. The way i see it is that if someone can't take them the way they were born, they shouldn't take them at all.
michele11
03-06-2015, 03:29 PM
My mom bought me a thing for my cats for christmas( I don't even know what it's called). It has like a bowl for them to sit in and a other thing. The middle has rope stuff to scratch. I was so mad because on christmas my cats got a present. They are persians so I knew they wouldn't play in it. She would ask every day if they did yet. Nope. Then one day I see my male scratching. Then my little kitty saw him and it was so cute she watched him and she stretched her little body and copied him. My mom was tickled pink. I was happy she didn't waste her money and now my male uses it excluslively.