Go, little lost emaciated kitty! May your new diet and home see you back to fat cat stature in no time!
lemur wrote:If they removed the claws from all four feet, fuck 'em.
Twice on Sunday if the cat did not escape accidentally, but rather was allowed to be an outdoor cat.
Cleo was declawed on all four paws and still managed to hunt mice and sundry other creatures just fine. She also never got further than hiding in the raspberry bushes at the edge of the garden when we'd let her out during the daytime (when we were also usually outside watching her).
When I get another indoor kitty, it will be a 4-paw declawee again. I have a leather sofa and several other expensive pieces of furniture that kitty claws cannot ruin. For the record, I'd never let a completely declawed kitty outside here without a harness and leash in place. It was one thing to do it in Pulaski with Cleo, who was never going to run away, but there's just not enough space here and too much traffic and other distractions. Plus, we live in Kitty Fuck Central so some other neighbourhood kitty would probably try to rape my cat while it was basking in the sun.
Anyway, 4-claw declawees aren't always hapless or weak and in my case, it's:
A) declaw all 4 paws or else kitty cannot live with and have awesome kitty mom.
B) kitty keeps 2 sets of claws and then gets stuck in home where owners are less than stellar parents and ignore kitty most of the time and do not ever share their bacon with kitty and forget to clean litter box and do not sew catnip toys weekly.
I think that any cat I've ever dealt with would choose option A.