Tacoma becomes first WA city to ban nontherapeutic cat declawing– December 5, 2023 – The Tacoma City Council voted December 5, 2023 to ban cat declawing.The move will make Tacoma the first city in Washington to outlaw the procedure. Leading up to the vote, Councilmember John Hines said the time was right to “choose cats, […]

Forks Township becomes the latest Pennsylvania city to outlaw declawing– August 3, 2023 – The Board of Supervisors of the Township of Forks, County of Northampton, Pennsylvania, voted to pass Ordinance No. 394, which amends Chapter 54 of the Code of the Township of Forks to prohibit the declawing of cats. Paw Project Director and

New Hampshire cat anti-declaw bill, HB 231, killed– May 19, 2023 – New Hampshire House Bill 231 which would ban cat declawing was heard on the Senate floor today. After a short debate, Senate President Jeb Bradley (R-Wolfeboro) ruled to kill the bill despite the overwhelming shouts to formally vote on the bill. Senator Howard Pearl

Minnesota Law Prohibits Landlords From Requiring Declawing and Devocalization– May 15, 2023 – Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has signed a bill which creates Section 5048.114 in the Minnesota Statues, which prohibits landlords from requiring that tenants declaw or devocalize their animals as a condition of tenancy. The law will go into effect on January 1,

Washington, DC, bans declawing– April 21, 2023 – The Council of the District of Columbia passed § 22–1012.03, which states that “A person commits unlawful cat declawing if that person knowingly performs, or causes to be performed, a partial or complete onychectomy, phalangectomy, or tendonectomy procedure (“declawing”), by any means, on a cat, except when