Cats instinctively hide pain, making illness hard to detect. Instead of vocalizing, they show subtle changes like altered posture, hiding, reduced appetite, or lower activity—often only when a condition has progressed.

Declawing may sound like a simple nail trim, but it's actually a surgical amputation. In this procedure, the last bone of each toe is removed, which is equivalent to cutting off a human fingertip at the last knuckle.

Veterinarians call this surgery an onychectomy, and many no longer perform it due to the severe physical and behavioral effects it can cause.