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<blockquote data-quote="Star*" data-source="post: 116644" data-attributes="member: 4964"><p>Okay let me start over - I volunteer in an no-kill animal shelter. We get a lot of people who drop off teenaged and adult cats citing that they have stopped using the litter box. Over 1/2 of the cats we get in the shelter are dumped and of that 75% dumped are declawed. When you ask the owner why the animal is being turned in without claws - every single person I have spoken with has said because it stopped using the litter box and started using other places for the toilet. </p><p></p><p>We also have clawed cats and de-clawed cats there that ARE able to use the litter box and didn't develop any behavioral problems. But it's the #1 reason in our shelter cats are dumped by owners.</p><p></p><p>Sorry for the mis-quote. In the article below it shows how the toes are cut off. And there is a statement that says 15.4% of cats that are operated on develop problems. </p><p></p><p>In no way was I referring to people who have their cats declawed - but when you work at the animal orphanage - you hear it all day long and it just makes you sad that they wanted a cat, got a cat, had it's claws removed, and then dumped the cat. They are the same people who think animals are disposable - and will turn right around and want to adopt a kitten! It makes me so mad I could spit. Until we got a computer - and a list of people who couldn't re-adopt - these people would drop off a declawed cat thinking that it was just 'this cat' and then adopt a kitten in a months time - OR get a kitten somewhere else - and then declaw it - same problem and back to the no-kill shelter to dump another animal. It's very sad to me. Hope this explains my point better. Sorry for misunderstanding. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Psychological & Behavioral Complications</p><p></p><p>Some cats are so shocked by declawing that their personalities change. Cats who were lively and friendly have become withdrawn and introverted after being declawed. Others, deprived of their primary means of defense, become nervous, fearful, and/or aggressive, often resorting to their only remaining means of defense, their teeth. In some cases, when declawed cats use the litterbox after surgery, their feet are so tender they associate their new pain with the box...permanently, resulting in a life-long adversion to using the litter box. Other declawed cats that can no longer mark with their claws, they mark with urine instead resulting in inappropriate elimination problems, which in many cases, results in relinquishment of the cats to shelters and ultimately euthanasia. Many of the cats surrendered to shelters are surrendered because of behavioral problems which developed after the cats were declawed.</p><p></p><p>Risk factors for relinquishment of cats to an animal shelter:</p><p></p><p> * "Among 218 cats relinquished to a shelter, more (52.4%) declawed cats than non-declawed cats (29.1%) were reported by owners to have inappropriate elimination problems."</p><p></p><p>Source: World Small Animal Veterinary Association - 2001</p><p></p><p>The incidence of behavior problems following onychectomy in cats; two months to five years (median 11.5 months) after surgery:</p><p></p><p> * "(33%) developed at least one behavior problem.</p><p> * "(17.9%) had an increase in biting habits or intensity."</p><p> * "(15.4%) would not use the litter box"</p><p></p><p>Source: World Small Animal Veterinary Association - 2001</p><p></p><p>Many declawed cats become so traumatized by this painful mutilation that they end up spending their maladjusted lives perched on top of doors and refrigerators, out of reach of real and imaginary predators against whom they no longer have any adequate defense.</p><p>A cat relies on its claws as its primary means of defense. Removing the claws makes a cat feel defenseless. The constant state of stress caused by a feeling of defenselessness may make some declawed cats more prone to disease. Stress leads to a myriad of physical and psychological disorders including supression of the immune system, cystitis and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Star*, post: 116644, member: 4964"] Okay let me start over - I volunteer in an no-kill animal shelter. We get a lot of people who drop off teenaged and adult cats citing that they have stopped using the litter box. Over 1/2 of the cats we get in the shelter are dumped and of that 75% dumped are declawed. When you ask the owner why the animal is being turned in without claws - every single person I have spoken with has said because it stopped using the litter box and started using other places for the toilet. We also have clawed cats and de-clawed cats there that ARE able to use the litter box and didn't develop any behavioral problems. But it's the #1 reason in our shelter cats are dumped by owners. Sorry for the mis-quote. In the article below it shows how the toes are cut off. And there is a statement that says 15.4% of cats that are operated on develop problems. In no way was I referring to people who have their cats declawed - but when you work at the animal orphanage - you hear it all day long and it just makes you sad that they wanted a cat, got a cat, had it's claws removed, and then dumped the cat. They are the same people who think animals are disposable - and will turn right around and want to adopt a kitten! It makes me so mad I could spit. Until we got a computer - and a list of people who couldn't re-adopt - these people would drop off a declawed cat thinking that it was just 'this cat' and then adopt a kitten in a months time - OR get a kitten somewhere else - and then declaw it - same problem and back to the no-kill shelter to dump another animal. It's very sad to me. Hope this explains my point better. Sorry for misunderstanding. Psychological & Behavioral Complications Some cats are so shocked by declawing that their personalities change. Cats who were lively and friendly have become withdrawn and introverted after being declawed. Others, deprived of their primary means of defense, become nervous, fearful, and/or aggressive, often resorting to their only remaining means of defense, their teeth. In some cases, when declawed cats use the litterbox after surgery, their feet are so tender they associate their new pain with the box...permanently, resulting in a life-long adversion to using the litter box. Other declawed cats that can no longer mark with their claws, they mark with urine instead resulting in inappropriate elimination problems, which in many cases, results in relinquishment of the cats to shelters and ultimately euthanasia. Many of the cats surrendered to shelters are surrendered because of behavioral problems which developed after the cats were declawed. Risk factors for relinquishment of cats to an animal shelter: * "Among 218 cats relinquished to a shelter, more (52.4%) declawed cats than non-declawed cats (29.1%) were reported by owners to have inappropriate elimination problems." Source: World Small Animal Veterinary Association - 2001 The incidence of behavior problems following onychectomy in cats; two months to five years (median 11.5 months) after surgery: * "(33%) developed at least one behavior problem. * "(17.9%) had an increase in biting habits or intensity." * "(15.4%) would not use the litter box" Source: World Small Animal Veterinary Association - 2001 Many declawed cats become so traumatized by this painful mutilation that they end up spending their maladjusted lives perched on top of doors and refrigerators, out of reach of real and imaginary predators against whom they no longer have any adequate defense. A cat relies on its claws as its primary means of defense. Removing the claws makes a cat feel defenseless. The constant state of stress caused by a feeling of defenselessness may make some declawed cats more prone to disease. Stress leads to a myriad of physical and psychological disorders including supression of the immune system, cystitis and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).. [/QUOTE]
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