My sister owns this lovely little boy who is a polydactyl. I don't know how many of you have owned these, but for those of you that have no idea what I'm talking about, they're cats that have extra toes. They're also called Hemingway cats, or "hey look this cat has extra toes!"
Well, he has two extra toes growing off his "thumb," which I think is the norm, but they point towards the rest of his paw. I have an image, but it's fairly large, so I'm just going to provide a link instead of taking up your computer screens
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y34...7/IMG_0023.jpg
If this link doesn't work (it may be protected) I'll just have to resize it to post.
Anyways, on to my point, I get so side tracked. Her vet told her that as he gets older, the claws may dig into his paw. At the moment, she clips his nails very often just to make sure the nails don't grow too long and dig into his paw. She had planned on getting him declawed, until I explained the process to her. I am very against declawing cats. However, she IS still thinking about getting those two digits on both front paws declawed so that they don't dig into his paw because I don't think she wants to clip them his entire life.
Does anyone have some advice about this little guys situation? I know it's so inhumane, but would declawing even be a good idea (I'm almost slapping myself for saying that) just to make sure his nails don't hurt his paw? I almost want to move home and clip his claws myself, but there has to be some sort of solution here. Any help would be appreciated!
Well, he has two extra toes growing off his "thumb," which I think is the norm, but they point towards the rest of his paw. I have an image, but it's fairly large, so I'm just going to provide a link instead of taking up your computer screens
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y34...7/IMG_0023.jpg
If this link doesn't work (it may be protected) I'll just have to resize it to post.
Anyways, on to my point, I get so side tracked. Her vet told her that as he gets older, the claws may dig into his paw. At the moment, she clips his nails very often just to make sure the nails don't grow too long and dig into his paw. She had planned on getting him declawed, until I explained the process to her. I am very against declawing cats. However, she IS still thinking about getting those two digits on both front paws declawed so that they don't dig into his paw because I don't think she wants to clip them his entire life.
Does anyone have some advice about this little guys situation? I know it's so inhumane, but would declawing even be a good idea (I'm almost slapping myself for saying that) just to make sure his nails don't hurt his paw? I almost want to move home and clip his claws myself, but there has to be some sort of solution here. Any help would be appreciated!