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Paw Project Activities, Declawing Issues and Animal Welfare Legislation

Eight California cities passed bans on declawing

2009 was a milestone year for legislative efforts to ban declawing in California. Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Berkeley, Culver City, and Burbank approved declaw bans. West Hollywood passed the nation's first declaw ban in 2003.

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Feline declawing affords no benefits to the health or well-being of the animal, but instead produces health or behavioral problems in many cases.

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In recognition of this important animal welfare issue, former California Assembly member Paul Koretz (D-42nd District) introduced California State Assembly Bill AB 1857, which bans the practice of declawing of captive wild and exotic cats, such as tigers, lions, and cougar in the State of California.

AB 1857 was the first bill of its kind in the United States. It was passed by the California State Assembly on May 17, 2004, by the California Senate on August 24, 2004, and was signed into law by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The passage of AB 1857 in California demonstrated that grassroots compaigns can be effective. You can make a difference in your community and your state! Start at the local level.

The Paw Project is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that exists to increase public awareness about animal welfare and animal cruelty issues related to the crippling effects of cat declawing, to rehabilitate declawed exotic and wild cats, and to end the practice of declaw surgery or onychectomy on domestic cats and feral felines.

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