What affects us affects cats
I can’t watch it. It is simply too sad. And millions of people do it to their cats. They don’t see the sadness. They don’t feel the pain and emotional distress. They’ll say that their cat is fine after declawing. How do they know? Have they asked their cat how they feel? Think about …
For quite a while the American state of New Jersey has been debating a ban on declawing cats. It looks as if it is bogged down in the legislature to me but there is hope that the draft law will pass one day. As usual the veterinarians lobby the politicians through their association to …
Michigan state is debating a ban on declawing. If the legislation is passed Michigan would become the second state after New York to ban declawing. During the New York debate State Assemblyman Clifford Crouch speaking inside the NY state legislature said that a ban on declawing across the state is government overreach. As it …
This is another great step in the direction of totally removing cat declawing from America. The movement to stop declawing has been slow but it is sure. There is progress and it will delight millions of Americans and people outside America. Banfield is the largest privately owned veterinary practice in the United States. They …
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 …
The title says it. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the Board of Aldermen of the city voted 21-1 for an ordinance (a local law) to end declawing by St. Louis veterinarians. There are 8 cities in California where declawing was banned years ago and New York state banned declawing recently. A ban on …
On their Facebook webpage, The Paw Project have partially published, 2 days ago, the findings of a study which concluded that… “front-declawed cats suffer from a high degree of measurable chronic stress…who is surprised? – the words of The Paw Project. The headline is: “Stress is High in Declawed Cats“ They provide some …
The complications of declawing are legendary but many vets (tens of thousands and the majority of American vets) say that they have never seen complications. Where are they looking? Are they blind or in denial? It is a terrible and shameless denial of the reality of this operation. The Paw Project write on their …
