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.
Declawing a cat involves the surgical removal of all or part of the last toe bone. Many vets suggest trying to train cats to claw only designated scratching posts before choosing to declaw. Not that many years ago, the decision about whether to have the family cat declawed focused more on the couch than the cat.