Declawing cats is legal in Florida, though Volusia County has banned the practice for non-medical reasons. The procedure, known as an onychectomy, involves amputating the last bone of a cat's toes.

California banned cat declawing, becoming the sixth state to do so. Kansas still allows the controversial practice.

Declawing cats is still seen by many as a simple way to save furniture, but it should instead be referred to as what it is: ...

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.

Neal J. Riley is a digital producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. Neal is a graduate of Boston ...

Amid complaints from animal welfare activists that declawing cats is cruel and often unnecessary, Illinois lawmakers have been debating for more than two years whether to ban the practice. Some ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Planning to declaw your cat? Scratch that. It’s now illegal in Massachusetts, except for rare medical cases. Gov. Maura Healey on ...

EWING, New Jersey -- New Jersey could soon be the first state in the nation to ban the controversial practice of declawing cats. An assembly committee has approved a bill that would ban veterinarians ...

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 ...

Five states, Washington, D.C., and several cities across the country have outlawed declawing cats. "Declawing" is actually a partial amputation of a cat's paw, akin to amputating a person's hand at ...

Is declawing a cat legal in Texas? Here's what state law says after Austin's 2021 ban was overturned by the Texas Regulatory Consistency Act.

Bills would ban sales of dogs and cats in pet shops, stop elective cat declawing and increase transparency related to commercial breeding.