jeri

One procedure is not more cruel than the other

YES it is.

If you 'chopped' my fallopian tubes I couldn't have children.

If you cut off the top joints of my fingers, I couldn't play the fiddle.

You can't say these are of similar importance. Fiddle playing is far more important. *grin*

Seriously though, keeping a cat inside for its whole life, or declawing it, is a pretty selfish thing to do.

I find it difficult to understand how people who put the appearance of their furniture above the welfare of their pets manage to call themselves 'cat lovers'