Khloe Kardashian says she regrets having her cats declawed, admitting on her podcast this week that the kitties are “miserable” since she had them mutilated.
But she stopped short of taking responsibility, electing to blame an unnamed party for allegedly telling her it was okay to have her cats’ toes amputated at the first knuckle.
“I was really misadvised about getting my cats declawed. I’ve never owned cats before. I didn’t even know that was a thing. I feel really, really terrible that I did go in this direction,” Kardashian said.
Look, I get it. Learning stuff is, like, hard. If only someone would invent a worldwide network, an “internet” if you will, where one might access the entire sum of human knowledge with but a few keystrokes!
In the absence of such a miraculous technology, how are we to know that chopping off a cat’s toes will cause them a lifetime of pain and discomfort?
Sarcasm aside, I’m not interested in going on at length about the Kardashians or litigating this decision online. Plenty of people are doing that. There’s really no point.
What I am concerned about is the unfortunate fact that the Kardashians have influence.
Because Kardashian isn’t taking responsibility, and she brought up her decision to declaw her cats in the context of her feelings and her regret, she is not effectively communicating why declawing is wrong, nor what it does to cats.
If you don’t know what it is, you should know declawing is mutilation. It is the amputation of your cat’s toes at the first knuckle.
It permanently changes a cat’s gait, leading to early onset arthritis. It makes simple tasks like walking and using the litter box painful.
It causes psychological problems because claws are a cat’s first and primary defense. Without them, cats feel vulnerable. That can manifest in several different ways, leading them to become fearful, or to become quick to bite because they have no other options.
Declawing is cruel, barbaric and has no place in a civilized society. It is illegal in most of the world, and US states are finally joining civilization with laws banning the procedure. Kardashian lives in California, where it is banned, so presumably she had it done before the ban or despite it. If it’s the latter, the chances of her facing legal consequences are slim to none.
If you’re worried about protecting furniture, there are much better options, but you should also know cats have normal behaviors that don’t always align with the concept of a perfectly-kept house. Your cat will test boundaries, throw up when she’s had too much food too fast, knock things over, get into places you never thought he’d get into, cough up hairballs and more.
You will be surprised. Things will be broken.
But that’s part of the feline appeal: they’re curious, playful animals, and you have to earn their trust. Once you do, they’ll be your pals for life — and you don’t want to betray that trust by making life miserable for them.
Pain In The Bud 
The poor babies, such an evil thing to do 💔
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Which begs the question, why would she admit this publicly, on her own podcast?
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She admitted this because if someone found out there would be severe backlash. Not that she would give a damn. All that plastic surgery has made her dumber than usual.
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Because she’s an idiot and probably thought that by saying she didn’t know what it would entail people would have sympathy for her .
I loathe the vacuous b**ch.
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She said she never owned cats. Could not stop laughing at her dumb statement. I was 14 when i started looking for homes for cats that showed up in my garden from a nearby hoarder. That was decades ago. I knew it was wrong at that age to declaw a cat!
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Wonder who made her make that statement because it is BULLSHIT!! And where are the people who adopted these cats to these?! A cat was taken away from someone from a Brooklyn rescue group. Contract clearly said DO NOT DECLAW!! Pretty sure ALL contracts say this. I detest this family.
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They’re breed cats. She probably bought them.
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Because breeders have no standards or morals to speak of. Recently, 63 designer dogs were found in filth and neglected. Tip of the iceberg with purebred cats and dogs.
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There’s never an excuse to declaw. For upholstery, my house-proud Mom used slipcovers. For walls, place a hanging scratchpad. For those humans who bleed easily, there’s an OTC product called BleedStop. To clip clawtips, I used to sneak up when they were sleeping and quickly clip one or two clawtips at a time. (Just make sure to only clip the tips, don’t clip too far up.)
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That reminds me of my grandma with the transparent plastic over her couches. I’ll have to try the sneaky claw trim to avoid getting mauled.
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All she needed to do was a few seconds of research to know how cruel declawing is… really no excuses in this day and age… so sad to hear.
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Indeed. She also missed an opportunity to explain to her listeners why declawing is wrong and what it is.
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Exactly. She is downplaying the seriousness of it. By making it about her feelings, many people will overlook the facts. She has a lot of influence (sadly), but there was her chance to use her influence for good, and she missed it.
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It’s shocking that anyone could believe declawing is acceptable. Shame be upon any and all who do this or allow it to be done to any cat, anywhere. Yes, cats can be challenging, but the joy they bring is profound. It’s dead simple: if you want the joy, put up with the challenges. An occasionally bad little Buddy is infinitely preferable to a miserable Buddy or no Buddy at all!
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Exactly. There are absolutely challenging and annoying things involved with having cats in your home, but that is the tradeoff for all the good stuff, and it’s more than a fair trade.
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She and her entire family are beyond stupid and annoying. NEVER even think about declawing a cat, its inhuman and serves no purpose. She should volunteer to have the first join of HER fingers removed.
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My parents got their first cat in the 1970s. Tigger ruled the neighborhood. All five pounds of her. Cats were expected to go outside back then. Declawing was popular, but my parents wanted her to be able to defend herself. When my mother found out what it really was, she felt bad for even considering it. (At least where we were, it was described as removing the nails. No one explained how it was actually done. She lived to 16, very long lived for being outside regularly
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I’m glad she did not her Tigger declawed. I don’t know how veterinarians can justify declawing. The Hippocratic Oath isn’t ambiguous about this sort of thing, and it doesn’t take a sophisticated conscience to intuitively understand it’s wrong.
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