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I’m curious, what arguments have you seen for declawing that are illogical compared to neutering?

• kerkeslager 7y ago
  In this thread: > Declawing a cat is the equivalent to removing someone's fingers at the individual knuckle level. Neutering is the equivalent to, well, neutering someone. > I’d much rather an animal be humanely euthanized due to not being placed in a home than needlessly suffering from humans purposefully mutilating them for the rest of their lives. > It sucks that we can’t find homes for every animal, but we don’t go purposefully placing animals in households that would abuse them just to avoid feeling bad about euthanasia. Declawing is abuse like any other. Literally if you replace "declawing" with "neutering" once in this post, it's an argument that it would be better to euthanize than neuter.
  • bb88 7y ago
    To further underscore your argument: The current viewpoint of most animal control organizations (with the notable exception of no-kill shelters) is that euthanization is one method to achieve population control, neutering would be another. The human analog of that would be "genocide". But yet, we don't use the term "genocide" to describe controlling the populations of feral animals. >Neutering is the equivalent to, well, neutering someone. Compulsory sterilization [1] has been deemed another form of genocide. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilization