A Michael Broad Blog
There is a very straightforward reason why the American Veterinary Medical Association’s (AVMA) policy on declawing is a complete and utter failure. It is also immoral and stupid. It is a failure in protecting the welfare and health of domestic cats. The AVMA’s revised declawing policy is published on their website (see base of …
Approximately nineteen million domestic cats are declawed in the USA at 2020. The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) tells us how many cats are declawed in the US although the information is scarce. Clearly not a lot of concern has been demonstrated in finding out the percentage of cats declawed in America. I have …
The AVMA have carried out their five-yearly review of declawing and decided to toughen their declawing policy by discouraging it (big deal!) but fall short of banning it. The updated policy makes another small step towards a ban which they may have the guts to enact at some time in the future (but too …
Those of us who hate cat declawing will have to wait longer for a state in America to be the first to ban declawing and thereby start the beginning of the end of this thoroughly objectionable and cruel veterinary practice. California’s legislature was debating a statewide ban but the bill (draft proposed law AB …
Canadian veterinarians have shamed American veterinarians by issuing a firm statement through their association, the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association, that they oppose the declawing of cats. It is an unqualified statement unlike that made by the AVMA which leaves the door open to declawing for non-therapeutic reasons because they leave the decision-making in the …
Too many cat owners don’t understand the declawing operation judging by a mini-poll which I am running on PoC. I am not out to blame anyone..except veterinarians. Where are they when it comes to educating cat owners? Take a look at the results of the poll below: The correct answer is the one at …
Anti-declawing protests at veterinary association conferences are a good way of disturbing the settled but unacceptable status quo which supports greedy veterinarians and the cruelty of declawing.
Karel Cornohan DVM has resigned from the AVMA because this toothless, unethical association does not take a positive stand against declawing. In my words, they have fudged the matter. They have been shilly-shallying over declawing for a long time. They just can’t bring themselves to declare in unambiguous terms that the declawing of cats …
