pet rant

[lobsterbox]

If you want a good angrymaker, just check out the Pets section on craigslist. Soooo many dumbfucks who should never have been allowed to have pets in the first place looking to get rid of them when they become inconvenient. I tend to take a pretty dim view of people who get rid of their pets in general. Sometimes things truly do happen that are

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[lobsterbox]

Oh, Oscar! I think he's much happier to still have his claws and be with you. Our cats certainly scratched up some things. Not too much ruined furniture, but they all LOVED the wooden support pole of our staircase. Oh well. I've also received my fair share of cat scratches but so what, they're scratchy bastards and they do that sometimes, it just comes with having a cat. Only occasionally was it the result of play that got out of hand, usually it was because one of them got excited and used claws as traction as they jumped out of my arms.

While declawing isn't the worst thing people do to animals, I certainly don't think it's very nice. I wouldn't want my fingernails removed, and they're not even defensive tools for humans like claws are for cats. Plus, how could Oscar show you his love if he couldn't give you a bit of a scratch from time to time? A bloody, scabby love scratch?

It just irks me because everyone knows that cats have claws, so if that aspect is a problem then maybe you should look at other animals. I don't want a pet that throws its poop at me, so I won't be buying a monkey and gluing its butthole shut so it doesn't poop. I'll just get a dog. You can't just go around snipping and bending other creatures to your will. That's like some fucked up Saruman shit there.

[ephemeraltoast]

welllllll a more accurate analogy would involve not just removing your fingernails, but removing the tips of your fingers up to the first joint. that is basically what declawing does. so it's even worse. :(

anyway yeah. time to go feed the scratch machine.

[lobsterbox]

That's how my mom always explained it to me, because it limits their ability to hold things more than just taking away fingernails would do. Yuck.