It subtly insinuates that cats being declawed is the norm and that cats with claws are a deviation from that norm

No, it doesn’t. Declawing was a common thing to do and it’s still legal in most places. It’s not that unusual to find rescue cats that have been declawed.

it’s also harmful and atrocious to force that deviation upon them.

Yes, for the 10th time in this thread, literally no one here has suggested otherwise.

The top-level comment was an attempt to normalize the mutilation of pets

Not it’s not, it was an observation of the absence of a still relatively commonly seen occurrence. If they really cared cats, then a simple correction would have sufficed, rather than bringing attention to themselves with passive aggressive shittiness.

Yes, it is available.

Ok, but no one said anything about declawing their cat. No one suggested that declawing cats wasn’t harmful to them. What exactly is the point of getting pissy with someone for using the correct term for a thing?

Really? You have no grasp on the general demographic and ideological leaning of this platform and how that might be an indicator?

You think a lot of people on Lemmy don’t understand that declawing harms cats?