My sweet little declawed burman cat Ginger was adopted from a co-worker.

After awhile, I began to feel really really bad about it, as it has no means to punish with my bullshit and i cant let her go outside to enjoy itself. I also found she gets pretty clumsy sometimes when jumping onto the couch.

I nearly shed a tear to watch her clawing at things even though there are no claws there.

I would never ever opt to declaw a cat, not for bullshit hippy reasons like pain and cat emotions and stuff, but for real reasons like a cat cant really be a manly animal that will kill shit, it shouldnt take a damn cat 3 minutes to kill a hawk moth...

Anyway, adoption is a necessary part of the pet industry and sometimes the benefits of rescue outweigh the cons of having, essentially, a bitch ass cat. However, I was pondering a possible market for a sort of attachment that a concerned pet owner could have affixed to the knuckles of a declawed cat. A cestus.



I am actually surprised that I have not heard of a market for this. It could be surgically affixed, or it could be somehow set up so that i cant be removed and reapplied at the will of the pet owner, like if I wanted to let Ginger run around in the woods for awhile, I could attach the cestus and not have to worry about her well being. I imagine that there would be varying shapes and sizes of "claws" perhaps as the upper-echelon of cestus a material that mimics the actual nail of a cat that to some degree grows.

For a surgically applied cat cestus it would have to have some retractable function and made of material that the cat's body wouldnt reject. It would be a lot of work and development, but I am confident and hopeful that it will become a viable option to owners of cats that have been declawed

What are your thoughts?

5/5/2010 12:17:29 PM

For all that work you do for the cat's well being, it isn't gonna give a shit.

5/5/2010 12:24:22 PM

That's dumb, is what that is.

5/5/2010 12:24:33 PM

You know, I've actually run into a few of the developers for this technology last summer at the 33rd Annual Feline Technologies Conference in DFW, TX. I spoke directly with Dr. Quan Xi and Dr. Tyrone Compton III about their latest germ-line physical enhancements for Maine Coons with Muscular Dystrophy and have been declawed. They saw a 44% adoption rate by the host and after an surgically-infused mytostatin inhibitor was established inside their GI tract, the hosts saw a 4% increase in muscle mass when fed a high protein hypercaloric diet. Amazing stuff going on here.

5/5/2010 12:24:52 PM

5/5/2010 12:28:22 PM

I meant for this to be in the Lounge, mods can you move the thread?

Man that is pretty cool, maybe with that technology we can restore claw growth^^

[Edited on May 5, 2010 at 12:32 PM. Reason : d]

5/5/2010 12:29:29 PM

5/5/2010 12:30:53 PM

cringer?

5/5/2010 12:46:12 PM

Thats a little excessive

plus you could just step on the damn cat and crush that shit

5/5/2010 12:50:34 PM