Summary: Advances in information technology and recent national directives have the potential to support dramatic improvements in health care. Two key components are the implementation of functional electronic health record (EHR) systems and widely accepted, evidence-based clinical performance measures for physicians.
In 2009, The Paw Project led the successful campaigns to legally ban declawing of domestic cats in 7 more California cities: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Burbank, Santa Monica, Berkeley, Beverly Hills and Culver City.
The claws are the first line of defense for a cat and without them, the animal cannot protect itself from any potential threats. Declawing has become so controversial that the practice has been banned in some countries. A list of countries where declawing is now illegal can be found at CatSupport.net.