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You will want thick gloves, a thick towel, and a container with lid to insert the cat into. Beans is not declawed, and knows you will struggle to maneuver under the bed. You may need a spray bottle of water as well.
Good luck.
The thick gloves protect you while you grab Beans and put him in the container.
And it's just always a good idea to carry a towel.
Fuck it, I'm getting another chicken.
Beats getting another hand.
I haven't yet had my fingertips snipped off either. Lovely euphemism for "mutilation of extremities".
Me, looking up what declawing actually does: wtf that's not declawing, that's amputation!
Reading further: "can lead to behavioural issues" no shit, you don't say...
Do you just go around looking to be offended?
In this instance I agree with his point though. I don't see you walking around without fingertips.
On a whole I don't support any sort of unnecessary bodily modification, declawing, tail bobbing, circumcisions, or whatever.
What bothers me is when people find it necessary to interject some unneeded drivel because of some passing word that's a perfectly well accepted term.
You literally just contradicted yourself in two sentences.
You claim you don't support inhumane practices, but then you call it "unnecessary drivel" when someone speaks out against them? And then you try to normalize those inhumane practices as simply "perfectly well accepted terms"?
They're not just words, those words have meanings, and the meaning of this one is atrocious.
Ok, but no one said anything about declawing their cat. No one suggested that declawing cats wasn't harmful to them. What exactly is the point of getting pissy with someone for using the correct term for a thing?
It is the currently used term, perhaps but it’s certainly not the correct one.
If it's a euphemism then it's not the correct term; mutilation is correct.
It's not unneeded. A lot of people don't understand what declawing actually is or haven't put thought into the harm it causes. They just think it's a harmless way to protect their furniture.
You think a lot of people on Lemmy don't understand that declawing harms cats?
I don't know what everyone on lemmy knows or not.
If one wants to be an 'aktually' arse then take note that 'declawing' is actually a much more precise term than 'mutilation of extremities' which could perfectly well mean putting their tail in a wood chipper and be technically correct
Really? You have no grasp on the general demographic and ideological leaning of this platform and how that might be an indicator?
Is that information even available anywhere or are we just guessing?
Fuck you. Clipping animals to make them more human friendly is atrocious.
Where did literally anybody support declawing cats.
They answered yes while creating a reason to be offended for having to answer yes.
Can't make this shit up. Impotent rage is some people's identity.
They didn't "create a reason to be upset." Declawing cats is a reason to be upset. It's inhumane.
How would you feel if someone cut all your fingertips off at the first knuckle and said "wow, impotent rage must be your identity" when you got upset about it?
I take offense to that.
No, I'm just a guy who doesn't hate cats.
I take offense to that. I'm a guy who hates cats but still doesn't think they should be declawed.
Right on, brother!
But claws are the fun part!