9 Declawing AAHA Hospitals Were Handpicked By AAHA Consultants For Their 2025 Practice of the Year Contest And Praised As Delivering Gold Standard Care.
Out of the 17 general practice* finalists for AAHA’s 2025 Practice of the Year, according to employees who work there, nine perform declawing—a painful, unnecessary amputation procedure condemned by leading animal welfare and veterinary organizations.
AAHA publicly “strongly opposes” declawing but rewards AAHA hospitals that perform it.
National Veterinary Associates (NVA) Lied About Declawing. Can This Company Be Trusted With Your Pets?
Story published in April 2021 Please sign our petition to NVA. No need to donate to Change. org as they keep the money. NVA petition Update 2025. Many NVA clinics are still declawing cats. For example, below are the two NVA clinics that are May 2025 finalists in the AAHA Practice of the Year contest […]
GoodVets.com Says They Provide Best In Class Medicine But Why Do Two Of Their Clinics Declaw Cats?
Out of 22 GoodVets clinics, we found that only two of them in Florida that will declaw cats. Both declawing clinics are owned by the same declawing veterinarian.
No Mercy for Cats: AAHA’s Failure to Stop Allowing Declawing Shows Money Matters More Than Cat Welfare
Cat mutilation and torture masquerading as the best in veterinary medicine: Many of AAHA’s Standard of Excellence Accredited Animal Hospitals declaw cats. AAHA allows their accredited animal hospitals to declaw cats for profit, advertise their declawing services, and lie about it to their clients and to the public. They also allow their veterinarians to submit […]
How The CVMA and the California VMB Stopped The Anti-declawing Bills
Multiple animal medical and welfare organizations have issued statements against declawing, including the American Association of Feline Practitioners, the American Animal Hospital Association, the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association, and the World Small Animal Veterinary Association. Fourteen jurisdictions have seen fit to ban the procedure. Even a major veterinary hospital chain, VCA, stopped declawing a year ago throughout Canada.
Now it is time for California to pass this important legislation and join the worldwide humane movement against declawing.
The ASPCA’s Declawing Position Is Being Used To Defeat Anti-Declawing Bans, Helping Declawing Vets To Keep Cashing In On This Animal Cruelty
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.
Why Would CityVet.com Say They Are Devoted Healers Yet They Allow Declawing In Their Vet Clinics!
Story published on February 5, 2025 CityVet is a veterinary group company with over 55 vet clinics in America. They say on their website that their core values are, “We promise to serve pet families in the kindest ways possible. Our collective compassion, support, and exceptional care shape our values and give us purpose everyday.” […]
Why is Kansas State University so backwards compared to all the other veterinary schools in the world? KSU still performs the inhumane procedure of declawing in their “health center.”
Here’s our story about how all the veterinary colleges in America address declawing. Out of these 30 American veterinary schools, 10 of them don’t perform declawing at their small animal hospitals, according to employees at their hospitals.
Why Does AAHA.org Lie About Declawing and Why Do They Put Profits Over The Welfare of Cats And Allow Declawing In Their Animal Hospitals?
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.
PetVet Care Centers Says They Believe In Ethical Medical Practice & Minimizing Unnecessary Pain and Suffering in Their Patients But They Allow Declawing
The majority of PetVet Care Centers perform declawing. In fact, most of them also offer 4 paw declaws.