Not being in a town in California, here is what she'd be up against:
Despite being the 3rd most populous state in the country, there are 7 no-declaw vets listed on the pawproject listings in the
state of NY, one of whom is all-mobile.
And statements like this:
•https://www.avma.org/kb/policies/pages/declawing-of-domestic-cats.aspx
• Scientific data do indicate that cats that have destructive scratching behavior are more likely to be euthanatized, or more readily relinquished, released, or abandoned, thereby contributing to the homeless cat population. Where scratching behavior is an issue as to whether or not a particular cat can remain as an acceptable household pet in a particular home, surgical onychectomy may be considered.
• There is no scientific evidence that declawing leads to behavioral abnormalities when the behavior of declawed cats is compared with that of cats in control groups.
Don't imagine the first statement helps all the declawed cats currently in shelters & rescues... I'd be interested to know a rough %, honestly.
Also, how is "destructive scratching behavior" consistently defined?
That is very subjective! Kitty scratches a child who is teasing, or scratching on furniture?
How many know that cats may even like to -- and need to -- scratch both vertically and horozontally? How many people are educated before getting their cat? They go with "the mainstream".
(I didn't
Thought horizontal was just fine for one particular cat I know because her mom said she's never bothered the cat trees/posts but LOVES the cardboard floor ones!! Here she just don't like carpet and prefers cardboard;
confirmed when a cardboard one was propped up against a wall she'd try to scratch vertically ...
) And on and on...
It's ALL about EDUCATION. And the statements above are not "education", IMO. This should be explained
explicitly among the statements on the site, and pictures as posted in the other thread should be mandatory so that it is FULLY understood in layman's terms:
Procedure involves disarticulation of the P2/P3 junction and subsequent removal of entire P3 bone
Instead of selling carb-laden cereal and performing amputations, perhaps they should stack their lobbies with scratchers, or literature & brochures for them!!