New law for cats

Onychectomy, or declawing, is legal in the USA except in a few places like Denver, CO. In 2017 Denver prohibited declawing, and in 2010 so did the municipalities Berkley, Beverly Hills, Burbank, Culver City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Santa Monica. Now, there’s a new state law for cats. New York became the first state in the USA to outlaw declawing. Governor Cuomo signed the ban into law on June 4, 2019.

It is a controversial procedure and for good reason. Do you know what declawing really is? Click here about declawing to read the actual description of what declawing is and how it effects the cat.

One of the controversies about declawing is that by not having the option to declaw could minimize how many cats get adopted from shelters, because furniture scratching is major complaint against having cats. The argument against that is: if your furniture is more important than your cat, maybe you shouldn’t have a cat in the first place.

The following countries already banned or the practice is viewed as extremely inhuman and performed only under extreme circumstances:

England
Scotland
Wales
Italy
Austria
Switzerland
Norway
Sweden
Ireland
Denmark
Finland
Slovenia
Brazil
Australia
New Zealand
Serbia
Montenegro
Macedonia
Slovenia
France
Germany
Bosnia
Malta
Netherlands
Northern Ireland
Portugal

Let’s hope the USA is added to the list.

what do you think?