Lawmakers in Michigan are considering a bill to make it illegal to declaw cats, which many animal advocates and some veterinarians say impedes the felines' natural instincts to climb and scratch.

BOSTON (WPRI) — It will soon officially be illegal to declaw a cat in Massachusetts. Gov. Maura Healey signed legislation Thursday that bans declawing and tendonectomy procedures on cats unless it is ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – The Massachusetts Senate has unanimously passed a bill to prohibit declawing, tendonectomy, and similar procedures from being performed on cats. The ban on inhumane cat ...

Assembly Bill 867 bans tendonectomy, onychectomy, or "any type of claw removal" procedures on cats. Declawing is "the cutting and amputating of the first joint (the toes) of a cat’s paw," and often ...

To the Editor: New Hampshire representatives on the Environment and Agriculture Committee are debating a bill that would prohibit veterinarians from performing declawing procedures on cats. HB 201 ...