- Cats
Some owners of cats and cats, in order to keep the interior of their home safe and sound, to protect family members, especially children, from the threat of being scratched, decide on a rather complex operation - declawing cats, which is called onychectomy.
Cat declawing surgery - onychectomy
Most owners are faced with the fact that sooner or later there comes a time when their pet injures them with sharp claws for various reasons. In such situations, the animal's nails should be trimmed. However, such manipulations will need to be carried out constantly.
There is a special procedure for declawing cats - onychectomy (soft paw surgery). This is a surgical removal with which the claw phalanges are completely amputated. This removal method allows you to permanently tear out the claws with the first phalanx of the toe on the animal’s front paws.
Feedback from pet owners
Vita Trushechkina
But I no longer doubt it. I already decided, today, after the cats went crazy, ran around like crazy and scratched our 9 month old daughter who was sitting playing on the floor. I'm not even talking about how scared she was. And yesterday I saw how one of the cats wanted to hit my daughter, but saw me and ran away. So I won't wait for them to claw her eyes out. I love our cats, but the child and his safety are more important.
Svetlana Skibenko
I'm sorry, but why are we talking only about sofas? Let's talk about the hostess's health! My cat is very affectionate and peaceful, he has been in our family since two months and has seen only tenderness - he is our favorite. But sometimes he has attacks of aggression or fear (for example, he was afraid of a working food processor) - he attacks me, his mistress. He has already repeatedly torn my legs to pieces, a couple of times even the ambulance took me away. The doctors advised me to get rid of the cat, but, again, I love him very much and don’t want to part with him. But I am still constantly afraid of his attacks. My legs are covered in terrible scars and in the summer I can’t even go to the beach! Moreover, this threatens blood poisoning. So what should I do - sacrifice the cat or is it better to use his claws?!
Jennifer
We declawed our cat. And it was a damn good decision. While all the wallpaper in our house was torn, shreds of carpets flew in all directions, etc. I endured it, trimmed the cat’s claws, ran after him with a scratching post, and so on. He sneezed on me and all my efforts. But when he with his claws jumped onto the hanger where my expensive leather jacket from Italy and my husband’s equally expensive sheepskin coat were hanging…. and, clinging to the jacket with one paw and the sheepskin coat with the other, he slid down, tearing shreds out of our clothes - this was the last straw. He was given general anesthesia and only the claws on his front paws were carefully removed. A week later he was jumping around like a saiga.
