What affects us affects cats
It is reported that a bill has been introduced by Sen. Lauren Book of the Florida state legislature to ban declawing except when it is for medical reasons which are in the interests of the cat. In other words declawing cats for non-therapeutic reasons will be outlawed in Florida if Sen Book’s bill is …
The governor of New York state, Andrew Cuomo, signed the bill into law after the state legislature passed the bill banning declawing last month. New York State Veterinary Medical Society fought the bill all the way arguing that they should make the decision to declaw. Sorry but you have proved over and over again …
How did an article picturing the gruesome declawed paw of a cat go viral more than 18 months after it was posted? That’s a question Michael and I have been asking ourselves this week after an article showing how cat who had been declawed took off, according to Google Analytics (which gives insight into …
Cornell broke their promise to Rhoda Horgan to spend her bequest in her will of US$125,000 to fight cat declawing through education and legislation.
This is an interesting test and I’d like cat owners to come forward to do it and report in a comment. Let’s see what happens. Note: the results may be muddied by the fact that domestic cats often don’t like their paws being fiddled with. But it is worth trying nonetheless, I believe. Americans …
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 …
A veterinary clinic employee wrote to Mercury News in response to a previous letter which supported cat declawing. The person supporting declawing was responding to a proposed law for California banning declawing unless for therapeutic purposes (AB 1230, as introduced, Quirk. Veterinary medicine: declawing animals). The employee said that declawed cats cried in pain …
You have to wonder why this 30-year-old man from Eden, North Carolina, USA, allegedly decided to take it upon himself to neuter his neighbour’s cat. We are told that he offered to neuter the cat even though he was unqualified to do so, and his neighbour declined the offer. Obviously she would decline the …
