Dear Cathy: In your column, "Stronger Case for Declawing," (Oct. 3) your case against declawing was based on opinion and supposition, not on science. There are many reasons for people to declaw cats.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Planning to declaw your cat? Scratch that. It’s now illegal in Massachusetts, except for rare medical cases. Gov. Maura Healey on ...

Minnesota is not exactly purring down the path to becoming the seventh state to make it illegal to declaw cats under a ...

Neal J. Riley is a digital producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. Neal is a graduate of Boston ...

Because there is a lack of rigorous long-term studies on declawing cats, the consequences of this practice have long been underestimated. Yet research conducted in Quebec shows that declawing causes ...

EWING, New Jersey -- New Jersey could soon be the first state in the nation to ban the controversial practice of declawing cats. An assembly committee has approved a bill that would ban veterinarians ...

Amid complaints from animal welfare activists that declawing cats is cruel and often unnecessary, Illinois lawmakers have been debating for more than two years whether to ban the practice. Some ...

People seek to have their cats declawed for all sorts of reasons: Maybe the cats are shredding the furniture, or scratching each other (or the dog). Or, maybe the pet owners grew up with declawed cats ...

Although it used to be common for cat owners to choose declawing as a solution to preventing scratching damage to furniture, carpets and the like, there are major negative consequences to it. Once ...

EXCLUSIVE: As we know, cats rule the internet. Countless images and videos are circulating online—perhaps upwards of 10 billion of them, according to one rough estimate. For instance, Puff, a rag doll ...

Editor’s note: Dr. Lee Pickett has retired, but Creators continues to distribute columns from her archive. This one is from 2020. Q: I recently adopted a kitten named Joy from a rescue that prohibits ...