TASC: For Owners: Declawing, Clipping, Training, Scratching Posts

• The Facts About Declawing, excellent article with illustrations
• Declawing of Cats, CFA Health Committee guidance statement
• Declawing Cats: Issues & Alternatives, extensive collection of links, including medical, ethical, and behavioral issues, and alternatives
• Pet Care Tips: The Declaw Debate, from American Animal Hospital Association website
• On Declawing Cats, by Theresa A. Fuess, Ph.D., from College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois
• Declawing Your Cat: Should You or Shouldn't You?, by Gina Spadafori, Veterinary Information Network website
• Declawing Cats - Arguments Against , collection of links from About.com
• If You Love Your Cat, Don't Declaw!, by Jackie Bell, from Birbell Birmans website
• Is It Cruel To Have Your Cat Declawed?, from Dandy Lions Persians website
• You Can't Declaw with Love, by Paul Rowen, DVM, and Carole Wilbourn

• Time to Trim the Toenails!, from Healthypet.com (AAHA website)
• Nail Care is Important for Your Pet, by Kimberly Meenen, University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine

• The Making of a Furniture Friendly Cat, retraining information
• Searching for the Escape 'Claws' in Cat-Scratch Contract, by Gina Spadafori, Veterinary Information Network website

• Cat Scratching Post, instructions and diagrams for making a tall sisal-covered scratching post
• Cat Tree Forest, instructions and photos for multilevel cat trees
• Do-It-Yourself Cat Tree, materials list and directions for multilevel cat tree
• Making a Sisal Wrapped Scratching Post, from Wisconsin Cat Club website
• Custom Cat Places, making your house more cat friendly

By providing these links TASC does not endorse the views expressed in these articles.
It is up to the reader to form his or her own opinion based on experience and research.

This page was last updated on October 6, 2001.