TACOMA, Wash. — The Tacoma City Council on Tuesday voted to ban the declawing of cats except when conducted by a licensed veterinarian for therapeutic or medical purposes, becoming the first city in ...

Editor’s note: Dr. Lee Pickett has retired, but Creators continues to distribute columns from her archive. This one is from 2020. Q: I recently adopted a kitten named Joy from a rescue that prohibits ...

Cat declawing (also called onychectomy) is the amputation of the first digital (toe) bones in a cat’s paw, including the nail bed and claw. It’s done to stop a cat’s natural scratching behavior. While ...

Destroyed furniture and scratch marks can be frustrating for cat owners. To avoid this, some cat owners resort to declawing their cats, despite the harmful effects it can have. "It's quite traumatic," ...

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 ...

A bill sponsored and supported by SouthCoast legislators would ban declawing of cats, with the measure passing the state Senate unanimously on Thursday. State Sen. Marc Montigny, D-New Bedford, was ...

LANSING, Mich. (WPBN/WGTU) — Is it a humane protection for cats or is it government overreach? That's a question in Lansing that supporters and opponents of a proposed House bill are asking each other ...

Dear Cathy: In your column, "Stronger Case for Declawing," (Oct. 3) your case against declawing was based on opinion and supposition, not on science. There are many reasons for people to declaw cats.