Phil said during the stream 'He's actually naht from here. He's from pfff. . .Where did they say he was from? I think they said like uhh. .Arkansas or something like that-like somewhere in the midwest or something."
"And this poor guy was apparently sitting at the shelter for a long time because people don't like the idea of owning a declawed cat."
Phil also said they had been going to the 'there's TONS of shelters here' since Kathy moved in "looking for a cat". . .so why didn't they get a local cat?
Like seriously, wtf is this meme story? The cat is 2 years old, Phil has owned the cat for a year, before that the cat spent a looong time in a shelter, and according to the timeline of when a cat would get declawed basically: someone in Arkansas paid $1,000 to get this kitten neutered and declawed and then promptly abandoned it to a No-kill shelter where it stayed for months until Phil adopted it cross-country

How does that make any fucking sense?
Also here's some funfacts about declawed cats from an article citing some tenative research:
- Declawed cats are 7 times more likely to pee in inappropriate places
- 4 times more likely to bite people
- 3 times more likely to be aggressive
- 3 times more likely to overgroom themselves
- 3 times more likely to be diagnosed with back pain and/or chronic pain in their paws
Declawing a cat can lead to much bigger problems than scratched furniture. Read on.
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