DECLAWING STRIKES HORROR INTO MANY UK HEARTS

I would have broken it to you gently dear when we'd finished the UK and the USA ........lol ..if we ever do !
We need some more troops desperately !

You kept that idea quiet my dear sister..... One thing's for sure, you'll move mountains to get declawing banned!

Thanks for signing the petition Maggie, I too would rather have my own hands and feet mutilated than let anyone do it to our cats !
Well done Australia for banning declawing !
Thanks for that link Susan, to Petfinder,I've had a quick look and it's going to be an enormous task contacting every Rescue Centre in the USA but we'll make a start as soon as we have finished the UK.
Unfortunately there are only 3 of us troops working on the UK list but maybe USA troops will help with their own country.
We'll need to word it differently of course as there is no doubt in any UK person's mind who rescues cats that declawing is wrong,but some Americans are going to be different.
This has all set me thinking, I wonder if we can find links to the Rescue Centres in every country in the world, at least the ones where declawing is banned would surely support us.

I signed it, I hope it gets somewhere, declawing is a cruel heartless practise. I would rather have my fingers and toes chopped off before having my cat declawed.

In Australia declawing is banned, it's one of the things that makes me proud to be an Aussie!

Most every shelter and rescue in America has a page on Petfinder.com (http://www.petfinder.com) where they list their adoptable animals, it's broken down by state. They also record declaw status. It used to be that if a cat had a black paw symbol next to their profile it meant they were declawed so you could sit & count the ratio of how many declawed vs clawed cats were in the shelter, although that way doesn't include if they were owner relinquished or from a feral colony which is imperative info. It did hownever reveal what groups declaw prior to adoption at a glance. Now though you have to open up each profile to see the declaw status - not sure why they made that move unless they are part of the conspiracy to hide the data.

I wonder if there is a similar site to the UK one we are using with the list of each cat rescue in each county anywhere on the Internet with USA cat rescues state by state and city by city. It would be a monstrous job but imagine if those USA signatures flooded in, surely ALL cat rescues can't subscribe to the myth that it's better to declaw than surrender, because as we know it surely IS a myth.