A recent article from Straitstimes mentioned about the increasing popularity of declawing of cats.
A cat without its claws is like having a game of football or rugby and disallowing any players to be in contact with each other, to prevent any scarring or physical damages.
It is a stupid idea people, and one where if any cat owner intends to declaw the cat, then might as well get a stuffed toy cat or a plastic cat. Look on the brightside, you won’t even have to deal with cat litter or buy cat food anymore too. Pfft.
Taking away a cat’s claw is like taking away its basic joy — and cats truly enjoy scratching away, at almost anything it desires, and this is probably one of the reason that makes cats so adorable. That you can’t control them but learn to tolerate their antics and, at worst, have plastic or metal furnitures instead of wooden or clothed ones, it’s a pretty lovely headache to possess.
Take away the claws, and we can go on to say that it’s lost its soul as well.
Claws are a cat’s natural form of defences, and so what happens when its defences goes away? What would you have felt if your main weapon (and joy) is taken away from you? What would you do if it was removed from you?
Yeah, just what would you do?
