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Hansen, T. (2013). Letters: Onychectomy Complications. Veterinary Medicine. https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=AWNB&t=pubname%3AVMN9%21Veterinary%2BMedicine%2B%2528USA%2529&sort=YMD_date%3AD&maxresults=20&f=advanced&val-base-0=onychectomy&fld-base-0=alltext&docref=news/149CCD3CDFADB208

An onychectomy is a procedure of last resort. It is only appropriate when all other techniques have failed and the only remaining options are surgery, euthanasia, or relinquishment.

 findings show that a number of staff felt uncomfortable with their participation in onychectomy (declawing) and relied heavily on organizational support structures to cope both with these feelings and the moral ambiguity about the practice. Relying on these structures, the veterinarians and their staff are able simultaneously to define felines as subjects worthy of respect for their quality of life, protect their own self-identity as people who work toward the best interest of animals, and paradoxically support action toward felines that they find morally objectionable.

"Well, I have to tell you, I don't like it. A person ought to accept the reality and the responsibility that cats have claws and they will need to be trimmed and may slice up the furniture before getting a cat. But many people still get cats, and then they realize that their furniture is being ruined or that people are getting scratched and believe that they have one of four options: animal control, kick the cat outside, euthanasia, and the last option is declaw. You know, if I was a cat, I would look at the options that a person is giving me . . . Death or Declaw . . . I would pick declaw for sure!"

Atwood-Harvey, D. (2005). Death or Declaw: Dealing with Moral Ambiguity in a Veterinary Hospital. National Library of Medicine. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16363088/

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