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 kittens is slightly less expensive than the cost of declawing an adult cat. Declawing a kitten costs less than declawing adult cats cost due to kittens requiring less anesthesia than adult cats and kittens recovering from the surgery faster and requiring less post-surgery care.