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New York City Bar Assoc Approves NYS Anti-Declaw Legislation
« on: March 17, 2018, 02:38:33 PM »
https://www.facebook.com/notes/the-paw-project/nyc-bar-association-approves-nys-anti-declaw-legislation/10156360440394602/

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Since 2014, the Animal Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association (“City Bar”) has been studying the controversial veterinary procedures of onychectomy, phalangectomy, and tendonectomy that are performed on cats; these procedures are commonly referred to as “declawing.” We have made significant efforts to learn about and consider arguments in favor of and against a law prohibiting these procedures,

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Convincing evidence from Los Angeles County suggests that a law banning the declawing procedure would not result in an increase in abandoned cats. Since 2009, when a law banning the declawing procedure in Los Angeles County went into effect, the number of cats surrendered to the Los Angeles Animal Services Department declined ...(Paw Project note: 43.4%) in the five years following the ban. There are numerous factors that influence relinquishment rates, but in a city of roughly four million people, it is significant that there is no evidence that a prohibition on declawing caused a spike in the number of cats being abandoned to shelters.

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