Planning to declaw your cat? Scratch that. It’s now illegal in Massachusetts, except for rare medical cases. Gov. Maura Healey on Thursday signed An Act Prohibiting Inhumane Feline Declawing ...

While most veterinary schools no longer teach this surgery and most veterinarians refuse to perform it, it is imperative the state prohibits it. This move will discourage cat owners from seeking out ...

Our New Hampshire legislature is deciding the outcome of House Bill 201, which would ban the inhumane practice of declawing cats. The Concord Monitor article on Jan. 22 covered Michelle Conroy’s ...

BOSTON - Cat declawing is now illegal in Massachusetts after Gov. Maura Healey signed a bill Thursday to ban the procedure that many animal advocates call inhumane. Declawing involves taking out ...

Cat declawing is now illegal in Massachusetts after Gov. Maura Healey signed a law Thursday banning the practice in the state. The law, introduced by state Sen. Mark Montigny, D-New Bedford ...

Governor Maura Healey signed An Act Prohibiting Inhumane Feline Declawing (S.2552) into law. The law bans cat declawing in Massachusetts, except in rare situations of medical necessity, such as a ...

Aurora State Senator Linda Holmes says her office is working on bills for the spring legislative session now underway in ...

Governor Maura Healey signed a law that bans cat declawing in Massachusetts except in rare cases of medical necessity. Violators of the law, which was passed last week, could be fined up to $1,000 ...

The Animal Legal Defense Fund states that the governor signed An Act Prohibiting Inhumane Feline Declawing into law, which bans cats from being declawed, except in rare situations such as cancer ...

Gov. Maura Healey signed a new law Thursday that bans the declawing of cats in Massachusetts.Cat declawing is an invasive surgical operation that is akin to amputating the last knuckle of a human ...