12/12/2023
Here’s little Eclipse who was declawed and thrown away, and found suffering in the cold last year.😾🐾😾😾😾 Look at how she’s walking on her ankles because of the pain in her paws. 😾😾😾😾😾
(Despite this awesome rescue’s hard work to try to save her life last year, she didn’t make it. 😿Thanks to Paws 4 life animal rescue CT for giving her so much love in her last days.)
In Eclipse's honor, please SIGN OUR PETITION TO AAHA.org to inspire them to STOP allowing declawing in their animal hospitals!
https://www.change.org/p/aaha-stop-putting-profits-over-the-welfare-of-cats-and-ban-declawing-in-your-hospitals
A new study just came out about how declawing affects cats.
Here are some excerpts from this important 2023 study about declawing.
“We found that the deep muscles that flex the digits, which are the muscles most directly affected by declawing, are significantly lighter (~73%) and less powerful (46–66%) in animals that have been declawed, while other muscles do not make up for these reductions.
Thus, declawing has a substantial effect on the muscular capabilities of cats, and because these deficiencies are not compensated for in larger cats, it probably has even more functionally devastating consequences for these species.”
Here’s the link to this 2023 study. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10416871/
@ AAHAhealthypet
