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**Ceakicknunk** · 09-03-2009, 07:16 PM

Personally, if it were me, (and it has been,) I wouldn't allow anyone to adopt the cat unless they signed a contract stating they won't declaw it. That's such a brutal surgery on the cat, a lot of people don't realize, but it often causes behavioral problems, like inappropriate pissing. One of our cats was found neutered and declawed, had been "around the neighborhood," we were told, for "about a year." He wasn't more than 1 1/2 yrs. old, so we figure that after the declawing, he started the misbehavior that he's now on Prozac, I kid you not, for, and the owners probably tossed him out. In fact, we think the VERY PEOPLE who told us how long he'd been out there were the ones who did it.
That's where he hung around, the woman fed him once in a while, and said her husband didn't want her to, and that the cat would even try to get in her car with her....

One night, when he was eating at OUR winterized cat shelter, I decided to try to pet him, and after that, he cried the ENTIRE NIGHT at my bedroom window, cried himself hoarse until 8am.
He disappeared for a day, then came back and walked right into the carrier we had, he's been my very best buddy ever since.

09-03-2009, 07:16 PM	#5
Ceakicknunk Join Date Oct 2005 Location Belgium Posts 473 Senior Member	Personally, if it were me, (and it has been,) I wouldn't allow anyone to adopt the cat unless they signed a contract stating they won't declaw it. That's such a brutal surgery on the cat, a lot of people don't realize, but it often causes behavioral problems, like inappropriate pissing. One of our cats was found neutered and declawed, had been "around the neighborhood," we were told, for "about a year." He wasn't more than 1 1/2 yrs. old, so we figure that after the declawing, he started the misbehavior that he's now on Prozac, I kid you not, for, and the owners probably tossed him out. In fact, we think the VERY PEOPLE who told us how long he'd been out there were the ones who did it. That's where he hung around, the woman fed him once in a while, and said her husband didn't want her to, and that the cat would even try to get in her car with her.... One night, when he was eating at OUR winterized cat shelter, I decided to try to pet him, and after that, he cried the ENTIRE NIGHT at my bedroom window, cried himself hoarse until 8am. He disappeared for a day, then came back and walked right into the carrier we had, he's been my very best buddy ever since.
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