If declawing is contributing to moral stress for even some veterinary team members within Associated Veterinary Partners, as City the Kitty's survey could suggest, it represents a preventable source of ethical conflict that could be eliminated with a single company-wide policy. For a leader who has urged the veterinary profession to confront the systemic causes of moral injury, the question remains unanswered: Why does Co-founder and COO, Dr Bill Wagner, of Associated Veterinary Partners continue to allow an inhumane amputation procedure that may be creating the very ethical conflict and harm to veterinary professionals that he has spent years warning...

When cats start walking on their balls then we will start believing the NJVMA's spokesvet Dr Yurkus and his animal hospital that declawing isn’t more painful than neutering. Meanwhile, the American Association of Feline Practitioners’ policy on declawing states: “Physically, regardless of the method used, onychectomy causes a higher level of pain than spays and neuters. Patients may experience both adaptive and maladaptive pain; in addition to inflammatory pain, there is the potential to develop long-term neuropathic or central pain if the pain is inadequately managed during the perioperative and healing periods.” [AAFP Policy Statement on Declawing, 2007.]

If Mission Pet Health's CVO, Dr. Dan Markwalder, banned declawing at MVP in 2021, why hasn't he done the same at Mission Pet Health? Is MPH's CEO Dr. Jay Price standing in the way, or was MVP's ban simply a response to the bad publicity surrounding Elijah's horrific laser declaw and not about protecting cats?

Story published June 16, 2026 CareVet says it will phase out declawing across its hospitals on October 1, 2026. City the Kitty has asked CareVet to move up the ban or to ask their clinics to voluntarily suspend the procedure immediately, citing ongoing harm and cruelty to cats in many CareVet clinics during the transition […]

Here are some examples of how the vets with AAHA Accredited Animal Hospital's fight to stop the anti-declawing bills and ordinances. Dr Lynn McEwan of Palmdale veterinary hospital, an AAHA accredited animal hospital, submitted this letter of opposition to the California bill to ban declawing in 2018. In August 2021, another AAHA veterinarian, Dr Peter Pelissier testified to the Sheridan, WY City Council and Mayor about why he opposes the declaw ban amendment to the animal cruelty/abuse ordinance. Here's his full testimony.  He was not truthful with some of his information. This declaw ban amendment was stopped by a 5-2...

7 GOP Legislators are Duped by MVMA.org's Declawing Deception And Kill The MN Anti-Declaw Bill, Ensuring Many Innocent and Healthy Cats in Minnesota Will Be Barbarically Mutilated and Suffer for Life. In 2025, MVMA spokesman Dr Trevor Ames assured lawmakers that “very few veterinary practices offer elective declawing as a service currently.” In 2026, MVMA's spokesman, Dr Rob Memmem, co-owner of Gehrman Animal Hospital, reinforced that narrative in a March 2026 hearing, telling legislators there had been “a huge increase in the number of our veterinarians no longer performing the procedure over the last 15 or so years,” that “currently...

Story published March 10, 2026 UPDATE. April 2026 – The Minnesota Veterinary Medical Association, through its spokesperson Dr. Rob Memmem, provided misleading information about declawing to Minnesota legislators. Seven GOP legislators relied on that testimony and voted NO on the bill. Seven Democratic legislators voted YES—but the tie stopped the bill from moving forward. A […]

The American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) updated their declawing position statement in June 2021. They say they strongly oppose declawing, explaining that declawing is no longer a reasonable or supported procedure… But then they say if veterinarians are going to declaw, they should use pain meds before, during, and after.

In 2019, a spokesman for the billionaire Reimann family—whose ancestors profited under the Nazi regime—said, "The whole truth must be put on the table." Here’s a truth still hidden: The Reimanns built part of their immense fortune on human suffering, and today, they allow cat suffering to continue. Through their firm JAB Holding Co., they own NVA, the largest U.S. network of vet hospitals—over 1,400 clinics—many of which still perform declawing, a cruel amputation procedure their own Medical Board has called "inhumane." The cruelty didn’t stop with history. It just changed form.

Ohio — A statewide investigative declawing survey of 100 randomly selected veterinary clinics reveals a deeply troubling picture of the welfare of cats in Ohio, where this inhumane, mutilating, and cruel amputation procedure remains routine in many communities. Declawing is the amputation of the last bone of every cat’s toe and it has been condemned by leading veterinary organizations and animal welfare organizations and outlawed in six U.S. states, restricted in dozens of cities, banned in eight of nine Canadian provinces, and prohibited in more than 40 countries. Decades of studies link the procedure to lifelong chronic pain, arthritis, mobility...