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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This law makes it illegal to declaw cats except if a medical issue, such as cancer in the nail bed, requires it. This is a significant step forward to prevent cats from going through this inhumane ...

There, during the 1990s, she witnessed young cats suffering in the aftermath of declawing procedures. “They would be banging their hands trying to get the bandages off and the cage would be full ...

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 ...

A proposal to ban cat declawing will soon be back on the table at the New Hampshire State House. The operation to remove a cat’s claws involves amputating the bones on the paw. Lawmakers tried ...

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 ...

Massachusetts has a new law banning the "inhumane" and "barbaric" declawing of cats, a move that the bill's sponsor says will stop feline suffering from resulting pain, blood loss, and an impaired ...

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, imposes a ...

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 ...