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.
Why do people declaw their cats? To protect furniture or other property (95%) They donât know that a cat needs a scratching post; They donât want to try to train the cat; They tried one or two things to train the cat but it didnât work; Their other cat is declawed and they want to âlevel the playing fieldâ To stop the cat from scratching them