Declawing was a common thing to do and it's still legal in most places.

Exactly, all the more reason to call it out when you see language that normalizes it.

literally no one here has suggested otherwise.

If you agree that it's bad, then get with the effing program instead of focusing your ire on the people who are actually calling it out!

it was an observation of the absence of a still relatively commonly seen occurrence.

Again, a sane person would say "cats have claws," not "that cat hasn't been declawed." See the difference?

If they really cared cats, then a simple correction would have sufficed

Oh, you want to question whether someone really cares about cats? Someone who actually called out language that was attempting to normalize declawing, while you're the one rushing to defend that language? I don't think so.

rather than bringing attention to themselves with passive aggressive shittiness

You're the one doing that by arguing on the same side as the rhe people saying things like "do you go around looking for reasons to be offended" and "some people make impotent rage their identity."

Is that information even available anywhere or are we just guessing?

Are you literally being the arse you wish to see in the world?

Also, no, that's a really shitty take. "Mutilation" doesn't have to refer to the most extreme examples in every case. Amputating the tips of their digits is mutilation, and just because you can think of a more extreme example of mutilation doesn't change that fact.