Manitoba Vets Vote to Ban Cat Declawing
Manitoba is Seventh Canadian Province to Ban Cat Declawing –
May 30, 2019 – Veterinarians of the Manitoba Veterinary Medical Association voted overwhelmingly to ban the practice of declawing cats without a medical reason. The...
California Bill to Ban Declawing Stalled in Legislature
Legislation to Ban Declawing in California Stalled in Legislature –
April 23, 2019 – Assemblymember Bill Quirk, PhD, authored a bill, AB 1230, that would end declawing in California. The bill did not pass its...
Alberta Veterinarians Call For End to Declawing
Alberta Vets Ban Declawing and Other Unnecessary Surgery –
February 3, 2019 – The Alberta Veterinary Medical Association voted "overwhelmingly" to pass two resolutions to ban declawing and other surgeries they consider to be unnecessary,...
New Jersey Bill to Ban Declawing
Anti-Declaw Bill Passes First NJ Senate Committee
– May 31, 2018 – New Jersey State Senator Troy Singleton introduced legislation that would add onychetomy, or declawing, to the list of criminal animal cruelty offenses in...
Nova Scotia Bans Declawing
Leading the way in Canada –
December 12, 2017 – "Nova Scotia is the first state or province in the US or Canada to ban declawing," reports Dr. Hugh Chisholm, Paw Project-Atlantic Canada Director. The...