Update 2024. Here’s a photo of Teeger who was declawed at an AAHA hospital in 2015 along with his two siblings. The vets talked the owners out of the humane options because they wanted the money from the three declaws and the cats suffered unimaginable complications. All three has to have most of their paws amputated. Ryder and Abby passed away a few years ago. Instead of banning declawing in their hospitals after this, AAHA made a declaw communications toolkit for their declawing hospitals. Here’s more about Teeger’s horrific story. https://citythekitty.org/a-declawing-horror-story-at-a-standard-of-excellence-aaha-hospital/

Update November 2020.

AAHA took legal action to force us to take information and screenshots about them from this story.City the Kitty Press Release

Please Join Us and Let’s Try to Inspire AAHA to Put Accountability in their Declawing Position that says they strongly oppose declawing.

Please sign our petition to AAHA. We are almost at 50,000 signatures! AAHA Petition

Here’s our in-depth story about AAHA. https://citythekitty.org/why-does-aaha-org-choose-profits-over-the-welfare-of-innocent-cats/

Story Published on July 2016

AAHA published a Declaw Communications Toolkit to help their declawing hospitals instead of banning this inhumane, cruel, and unnecessary amputation procedure in their hospitals.

HERE ARE SOME OF THE “TOOLS” THEY PROVIDED FOR THEIR DECLAWING HOSPITALS. DECLAWING STAFF TRAINING GUIDE

AAHA’S Social Media Responses to Clients

It is never politically correct to mutilate animals. It’s that simple.

We told a very accomplished veterinarian, who doesn’t declaw cats, about AAHA’s Declaw Communications Toolkit, and they said, “It never ceases to amaze me that we have to keep coming up with these rationalizations to persuade vets and pet owners away from declawing when at the end of the day, it is just plain wrong. It’s like having to talk someone out of walking across the street blindfolded. The reasons should be self evident. “

Here are the facts.

The American Animal Hospital Assoc. (AAHA) has guidelines for vet clinics to be accredited.

These include highly important standards like having anesthesia only dentals. Press release saying how they banned nonanesthetic dentals in 2013 because they said they were below the standard of care. AAHA 2013 Press Release

AAHA came out with a declaw position statement in 2015 that says they “Strongly oppose declawing.” They also said that their declawing position is not a mandatory standard that AAHA-accredited practices must follow. Here’s the link. AAHA Declawing

The problem is that AAHA that also put out a “Declaw Communications Toolkit” on their website that includes how discuss ways of dealing with the rising public outcry over vet practices that declaw and the fact that those practices don’t want to stop declawing.

This Declaw Communications Toolkit isn’t mandatory either.

You really couldn’t make this stuff up but here it is.

Remember, declawing is a billion dollar business in America.

So here’s the hypocrisy in a nutshell.

AAHA has strict guidelines for compliance.
AAHA has a strong anti-declaw position.
Get ready for the big BUT…
But, AAHA openly tells their 3500 plus members who pay $1070 for membership, that they don’t have to follow the AAHA declaw position that strongly opposes declawing and says that veterinary professionals should educate cat owners about declawing and provide them with effective alternatives to surgery. (They aren’t however, ever lax on the dentals because they banned nonanesthesia dentals in 2013.)

Link to this information. AAHA dentals

AAHA’s 990 tax form showed that they made 4.5 million dollars from membership dues and assessments in 2017. Many AAHA hospitals declaw cats.

It’s possible that some of their membership dues are paid with money that came from amputating cat’s toes and claws.

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see why AAHA is afraid to come out and put accountability in their declawing position.

AAHA possibly stands to lose a lot of memberships because many of them don’t want to be forced to stop declawing.

But folks, doing the right thing is important in life and in veterinary medicine.

AAHA also gives the Declaw toolkit to their vets, on how to continue ignoring their declaw guidelines.

And there you have it.
AAHA- American Animal Hypocrisy Assoc.

Here is their press release where they say their declawing position where they oppose is NOT mandatory for their hospitals. AAHA Declawing Press Release

Here is their sample staff training guide in the Declawing Communications Toolkit. They tell them to call us, “people opposed to declawing.”

AAHA SICCED THEIR LAWYERS ON US AND FORCED US TO TAKE DOWN THIS INFORMATION.

Here is AAHA’s Social Media Tips in the Declawing Communications Toolkit

AAHA Declawing staff training guide

AAHA Sample declawing responses

Here is AAHA’s 2015 revised declawing position. AAHA’s 2015 Declawing Position Statement

AS USUAL I MUST REMIND YOU. Please don’t threaten, attack, or be rude to anyone involved in this post or campaign. We must do the right thing and take the high road and be respectful. It is wrong to threaten them in any way plus they will twist things around and play the victim. We know that the only victims are all the kitties that are being unnecessarily and cruelly declawed. We MUST continue to shine light on this cause and share all of these stories so that we show the truth about what is going on.

We MUST continue to educate cat owners who are being deceived by their pro-declaw vets and who are NOT being told about how declawing is amputations and not good for the health and well being of their cats, how it is inhumane and very painful, and how there are humane alternatives that they can use instead of declawing.

The way that we make positive change is through peaceful and respectful actions and words. When you lash out and are threatening, it hurts our important cause and makes us all look bad, and in turn saves less kitties from this very cruel and inhumane procedure.

AAHA’s Declaw Communications Toolkit To Help Their Declawing Hospitals