“Mission Pet Health’s highest priority is delivering the best possible health and wellness outcomes for animals” — Yet They Allow Declawing
If Mission Pet Health’s CVO, Dr. Dan Markwalder, banned declawing at MVP in 2021, why hasn’t he done the same at Mission Pet Health? Is MPH’s CEO Dr. Jay Price standing in the way, or was MVP’s ban simply a response to the bad publicity surrounding Elijah’s horrific laser declaw and not about protecting cats?
“The discomfort level is no more in a neuter than it is in a declaw that is done properly.”- NJVMA SpokesVet Dr Mike Yurkus
When cats start walking on their balls then we will start believing the NJVMA’s spokesvet Dr Yurkus and his animal hospital that declawing isn’t more painful than neutering.
Meanwhile, the American Association of Feline Practitioners’ policy on declawing states:
“Physically, regardless of the method used, onychectomy causes a higher level of pain than spays and neuters. Patients may experience both adaptive and maladaptive pain; in addition to inflammatory pain, there is the potential to develop long-term neuropathic or central pain if the pain is inadequately managed during the perioperative and healing periods.” [AAFP Policy Statement on Declawing, 2007.]