AVMA’s Credibility in Crisis: Leaders With Financial Ties to Declawing Shape Policy, Prompting Calls to Rename It the “American Veterinary Money Association”

Story published on October 21, 2025.  Here’s our petition to the AVMA. AVMA Petition Update July 2026.  Nearly 75 Years After The AVMA Helped Popularize Declawing, Two Vets Connected to Declawing Clinics Rise to AVMA’s Top Leadership. Here’s our story- https://citythekitty.org/yes-they-do-them-all-the-time-the-avma-elects-two-declawing-veterinarians-to-top-leadership-roles/ Update January 2026. In a sharp January 2026 Letter to the Editor in the […]

Betraying the Paws They Claim to Protect: ASPCA’s Position Helps Declawing Vets Not Cats

The American Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals (ASPCA) does not want declawing banned. 
The ASPCA’s declawing position statement is being used to defeat the anti-declawing legislation and it’s being used by pro-declaw cat owners to justify this inhumane amputation procedure.
Please call the ASPCA and ask them why don’t they want this ANIMAL CRUELTY (declawing) banned.  1 888 666 2279 ext 3.