I could not agree more! Thank you very much for this letter. Hopefully, declawing will soon be banned in the USA and Canada. As a European citizen (the Netherlands), I can tell you that declawing never was a thing here. Most people don't even know the practice exists. And of course they are horrified when they hear about it.

The argument about shelters is invalid. I can tell hou first hand, from a country whe're shelters exists and declawing doesnt.