Following Pittsburgh’s ban on declawing cats passed in late 2021, Allentown this year has also banned the practice ($500 fine for violations). The vote in the city council was unanimous.
Allentown has recently become one of the state’s leaders in animal protection, after banning puppy/kitten/bunny mill sales in October of 2022 ($600 fine for violations). For some reason Allentown is cat crazy, with an impressive 23% of the city residents owning one, according to census data.
Laws criminalizing the declawing of cats have also passed in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, and New York.
Animal rights activists have been working hard to educate the public on the practice of declawing, which many believe is an essentially harmless for of nail trimming but is actually an amputation of bones from the feet. It would be like having your fingertips cut off.
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