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Amby's Declawing Cats: Issues & Alternatives -- Medical, ethical, and behavioral issues, alternatives, and links.
AVAR: Cat Declawing Brochure -- Veterinarians present reasons not to declaw and alternative solutions.
Educate Don't Amputate -- A collection of articles about declawing, photographs of the surgery, webring, message board, and mailing list.
Declawing: What You Need to Know -- Information to educate you in your decision to declaw your cat with a list of countries in which declawing cats is either illegal or considered extremely inhumane.
Don't Declaw -- Facts about declawing cats with related links.
Animal Planet: Declawing -- Why cats scratch with alternatives to declawing.
Animal Planet: Claws -- Explains the facts about cats' claws.
Declawing -- Information and links about declawing. Content warning.
Pawprints and Purrs: Clawed for Life -- Opinions about declawing. Includes feline anatomy, why cats need claws, how to prevent damage to furnishings and how to trim claws. With links and references.
Feline Scratching -- Discusses why cats scratch and how to stop a cat from scratching. Discourages declawing.
Soft Paws: Alternative to Declawing -- Vinyl caps that glue to a cat's claws to protect against scratching.
The Facts About Declawing -- Explains onychectomy(declawing) in detail including physical, psychological and behavioral complications.
CFA Health Committee: Declawing -- Guidance statement on the declawing of cats from the Cat Fanciers' Association.
Feline Future: Declawing of Cats -- Examines the implications of declawing for the cat and addresses some of the myths about declawing.
What About Declawing? -- An opinion about declawing cats by Glenda Moore with related links.
Animal Planet: Scratching -- Explains the scratching reflex and how to deal with scratching problems.
Yahoo! Pets: Scratching -- How to deter your cat from scratching the furniture.
I Love Cats: Declawing -- An insight into declawing and why cats scratch. Also how to train a kitten towards acceptable scratching surfaces.
Scratching Furniture -- How to train a cat to scratch its post and not the furniture.
Dragon's Lair: Declawing Cats-Making a Humane Decision -- Describes why claws are important to a cat and why they scratch. Explains what declawing is and what the risks and alternatives are. Includes links.
Declawing: The Facts and Alternatives -- Describes why claws are important, the declaw surgery procedure including tendonectomy surgery, behavioral and physical consequences and gives alternatives to declawing.
Is Declawing Really That Cruel? -- Provides information of the other side of the declawing controversy and explains why, with the new surgery methods and pain medications, declawing is not cruel.
BBC NEWS: Hollywood Cats to Regain Clawing Rights -- Councillors in West Hollywood vote in favour of a ban on de-clawing cats, saying that the practice is painful and cruel.
The Paw Project -- Based in California. Explains the effect of declawing on both domestic and on large cats, provides advice and information on alternate methods to prevent cats from scratching items, project donation information.
East Bay SPCA: Cats and Their Claws -- Offers information about and arguments against declawing.
Cat Scratching.com -- Information from a veterinarian on how to solve scratching problems without declawing.
Veterinarians Who Do Not Declaw -- List of veterinarians in the U.S. and Canada who refuse to declaw or who declaw only under extreme duress.
De-clawing -- Information about the effects of declawing and links to additional information.
Cats International: The Truth About Declawing -- Discusses declawing plus how to build a scratching post.
Declawing - Do You Really Understand What This Means? -- Discussion of what declawing a cat really means with links to related sites. (Content warning)
FeLions -- The Ferocious FeLions internet support group for de-clawed Kitties to get help from Kitties who still have their claws.
CatsInfo: Facts Behind Declawing Your Cat -- Facts about declawing and alternatives to declawing your cat.
TheCatSite: Problem Scratching and How to Stop It -- Why cats scratch and how to teach them to use the scratching post.
API: Declawing: Behavior Modification or Destructive Surgery? -- An article by Tina Perry detailing reasons not to declaw and offering alternative solutions.
California Anti-Declawing Bill -- Legislation to ban declawing cats in California.
Declawing Cats: Manicure or Mutilation? -- Opinions on the declawing of cats. Includes an explanation of why cat claw objects, understanding declawing and a three-point plan to deter a cat from destructive clawing. With references. From PETA.
Safe Pet Products: Soft Paws Nail Caps for Cats -- Soft nail caps that take care of problem scratching without having to declaw. Includes instructions and size chart.
Declawing: Disclose and Wait -- Information about the procedure and the consequences of declawing cats.
HSUS: Destructive Scratching -- Describes why cats scratch and what to do about problem scratching. Also puts the Humane Society's view on declawing.