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San Francisco Bans Cat Declawing
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by Frank Liao | November 4, 2009 at 11:27 am
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San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted 9-2 in favor of a passing a new law banning cat declawing. The penalty for violators is a fine of up to $1,000 and a potential jail sentence of up to six months.
San Francisco joins 25 counties worldwide that have already banned feline onychectomy, which is the medical term for cat declawing. Most of the cities are based in Europe, although the list also includes a few American cities, like West Hollywood, CA and Norfolk, VA.
Not everybody is on board with this new ban on feline onychectomy, including the California Veterinary Medical Association and the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
"We're concerned about cats ending up abandoned," said SFSPCA President Jan McHugh-Smith. "Three [million] to 4 million animals are euthanized each year in the United States, and 70 percent of them are cats."
Los Angeles City Council Member Paul Koretz thinks it is nonsense to believe that cat declawing leads to abandonment.
"Declawing actually leads to cats being abandoned, because it causes instant behavioral problems in cats. They stop using their litter boxes because of their pained paws so they urinate all over their owner's house. And they can no longer use their paws as a line of defense and become biters."
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Frank Liao
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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at 12:16 on November 4th, 2009
Way to go flake city!
That ought to knock the cat population down about 80%.