Talk:Onychectomy

message: The cited research from Yeon et al.(2001) was misrepresented. The study only compared different declawing methods and there is no basis for using it to evaluate the behavioral effects of declawing.
99.6.60.38 (talk) 06:13, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Recovery, health and behavioral effects" 

message: Hi all, I made an illustration showing the declawing process before and after. Can anyone tell me if this looks correct? If it does I can add it to the article. --Turn685 (talk) 12:07, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Declawing illustration 

message: The image of an disgusting, infected paw is a clear political statement that (I would argue) violates both neutrality and the least-surprise principal when it comes to images.  This is equivalent to showing human organs suffering from an STI in an article about human sexuality in order to advance an abstinence agenda, or "Death on the Highway" clips in an article about the automobile because you think people should ride bikes.  It's excessively violent and not appropriate in this context.
Unless I hear an objection I am going to remove this image. Gerweck (talk) 08:10, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images of Infected Animals? 

message: Bias tends to creep into this article over time. I have been monitoring the article off and on for years and sometimes remove the most blatant POV violations. However, problems keep creeping back in. I have, again today, taken the time to remove some of the most obviously slanted phrasing in an attempt to restore the phrasing, at least, to something akin to neutral POV. I wish that I also had the time to go to the libaray and review the journal literature so that I could cite some of the statistics in a neutral, unbiased way, but alas, I do not currently have the time to do this research. Pgordon2 (talk) 03:05, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bias 

message: To Monk of the highest order: You recently made some sweeping changes to this article on grounds of alleged bias. Many of your changes related to tone, but you also deleted some citations to studies. I have been editing this article for several years, and I will agree with you that we have had some issues with bias, i.e. editors who oppose declawing and insert their personal POV into the article. I myself have on several occassions in the past gone in and cleaned up the article by eliminating both biased phrasing and misleading citations to sources. That being said, your changes in the recent edit were extensive and changed the article significantly. Some of them related to the way things were being phrased, and in some cases, you actually appear to have deleted citations to studies on declawing. I disagree with some of your changes, whereas others I might be able to live with. The problem is, however, that you rolled so many changes into a single edit that it is difficult to discuss them individually. It's only a bit of an exaggeration to say that your edit was tantamount to a rewrite. I would ask that, if you'd like to make major changes to the article, you go back and justify each of the changes you'd like to make, and preferably make them incrementally so they can be discussed and consensus can be reached. Also, where there are sources that discuss the effects of declawing, I would ask that you not remove the discussion of and references to these sources unless you can cite a good reason for doing so. ChicagoDilettante (talk) 06:29, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sweeping changes made by Monk of the Highest Order 

message: The section on Recovery, health and behavioral effects contains a number of gross misrepresentations of scholarly articles.  In some cases what's stated in the article here is the complete opposite of the findings of the journal article they cited.
For example, the Onychectomy article states "Inappropriate elimination (housesoiling) has been reported as being twice as common in declawed (52.4%) as intact cats (29.1%).[23]"  The journal article they cited by Patronek, Glickman, Beck (1996) states "Frequency of inappropriate elimination and aggression toward people were not associated with declaw status, but these behaviors were more common among sexually intact cats, compared with sterilized cats."
There seems to be a number of other dubious claims on here as well, but I don't have time to fact check everything on the page.  I hope someone else with journal access can take up the torch or even just someone who knows how to look up articles as some of these things can be verified just in the abstract.
Also, for the record I'm strongly against most if not all elective onychectomy procedures, but the solution is to educate people about alternatives, not to spread misinformation.  FantajiFan (talk) 20:52, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gross Misrepresentation of Scholarly Articles 

message: So, I find the lack of sources for 
Declawing has been banned by the Veterinary Associations of all provinces except for Ontario. .... All Canadian prohibitions still allow for declawing-type procedures in the case of medical necessity to treat an injury, deformity or pathology affecting the animal. That being said, these cases often only affect one digit, not all digits on all paws. 
deeply unsettling, and want to do something about it... sometime.  It's bedtime now, and all I've got so far is one article, so I'm saving it here: https://globalnews.ca/tag/cat-declawing/
StemsonStacey (talk) 06:47, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legal Status in Canada 

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