Planning to declaw your cat? Scratch that. It’s now illegal in Massachusetts, except for rare medical cases. Gov. Maura Healey on Thursday signed An Act Prohibiting Inhumane Feline Declawing into law, ...

Two new animal welfare laws go into effect in Massachusetts on April 8 One of the laws bans the declawing of cats Declawing causes serious pain and behavioral problems for the cats involved, according ...

Starting Jan. 1, veterinarians in the state will no longer be allowed to declaw cats. We spoke to veterinarians about how pet ...

Twenty years later, Sen. Melissa Murray still remembers the sound of the cat’s bones clinking against the metal bowl. One after the other, after the other. “It would be the equivalent of removing your ...

Because there is a lack of rigorous long-term studies on declawing cats, the consequences of this practice have been long underestimated. Yet research we conducted in Quebec shows that declawing ...

In Lansing, Michigan, supporters and opponents of a proposed House bill are engaged in a debate regarding a specific procedure that has garnered significant attention as of late. The question at hand ...

Since I was a young child, I have had cats in my home. Like my parents and grandparents before me, once I was on my own, I had my cats “declawed.” It is something that I regret to this day. What ...

A ban on cat declawing and plastic bags at the checkout are among almost eight hundred state laws that will go into effect in ...

Starting Jan. 1, 2026, veterinarians will be prohibited from declawing cats unless the procedure is medically needed and ...