Apartment Complex *requiring* all cats be declawed - Help!

[G535]

I'd move too.

Declawing is barbaric and has been illegal down here (Australia) for years.

[LaRana]

I thought I would post an update.

I spoke to the apartment complex manager a couple months back, and they told me they couldn't do anything about it. They gave me a complaint form to send back to the management company in California, and sent me on my merry little way.

Well, my lease expires at the end of February, so I went into the office to talk to them about my leasing options. I explained that I absolutely would not be renewing my lease if they expected me to declaw my cat. The girl said that they didn't have a policy on cat declawing and they never did. I was completely stunned at the conflicting information. I showed her things in writing that they had sent me saying such, and she was shocked.

Bottom line, my cat isn't being declawed (never will be), they aren't requiring it anymore, but I'm still unsure if I'll be renewing my lease for reasons that are unrelated to this post.

[Medusa]

I thought I would post an update.

I spoke to the apartment complex manager a couple months back, and they told me they couldn't do anything about it. They gave me a complaint form to send back to the management company in California, and sent me on my merry little way.

Well, my lease expires at the end of February, so I went into the office to talk to them about my leasing options. I explained that I absolutely would not be renewing my lease if they expected me to declaw my cat. The girl said that they didn't have a policy on cat declawing and they never did. I was completely stunned at the conflicting information. I showed her things in writing that they had sent me saying such, and she was shocked.

Bottom line, my cat isn't being declawed (never will be), they aren't requiring it anymore, but I'm still unsure if I'll be renewing my lease for reasons that are unrelated to this post.

Well, this is great news! Your kitty will be safe from declawing and the stress you were under is gone. Congrats! I wish you well in your new home if you do decide to move for other reasons.

[Randy_K]

What is the name of the new management company and where in California?

[MoonandBean]

Amazing how the right side of their brain doesn't know what the left side is doing.....Sounds like a screwy management. I'm glad their lack of communication will benefit the cats (and their toes!)

Thanks for the update

[kattaddorra]

Hi, I've just been reading this topic and it's very interesting because we in England were so shocked last November to discover that declawing is still legal in the USA.So after much research into the subject and contacting the AVMA and every state in the USA, I started up a petition to have it banned, as it's supposed to be a last resort procedure for serious scratching problems,yet some vets are doing it routinely to kittens, along with neutering:
http://www.petitionthem.com/default....etail&pet=4312
We also started a group:
http://clawsforever.ning.com/
so that as many of us as possible could get together with ideas and gather information, proof of how declawing affects cats, statistics of how many declawed cats end up in shelters etc ....to eventually present to the AVMA along with as many signatures as we can get.
The other day I heard from one of our group about some property firms insisting that tenants have their cats declawed,then I came across this site where some had fought it and won !
It seems more and more USA citizens are against declawing and a lot of people once they've had it done to a cat say they'd never do it again.But there are still some who don't know it often cripples cats physically and mentally and while some vets will still do this cruel operation, for the money or to please their clients,cats and kittens are still suffering.
So the only way to stop it is by a ban ! If anyone can help us please by signing our petition and/or joining our group to give us advice and ideas, we'd be very grateful.We have 997 signatures, in the 2 months since I set it up,many are Americans who want it banned.But we need many many more to make an impact,so please if you can pass it on too, it would be a great help.
Thank you.
Ruth aka kattaddorra