Neal J. Riley is a digital producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. Neal is a graduate of Boston ...

Amid complaints from animal welfare activists that declawing cats is cruel and often unnecessary, Illinois lawmakers have been debating for more than two years whether to ban the practice. Some ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law Thursday that will make it illegal to declaw a cat in California, a practice that lawmakers and animal advocates argued is outdated and inhumane. Assembly Bill ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Planning to declaw your cat? Scratch that. It’s now illegal in Massachusetts, except for rare medical cases. Gov. Maura Healey on ...

Removing their claws is an acceptable way to keep cats from scratching up furniture — or people, advocates of that practice say. But opponents say declawing cats is cruel and inhumane. California ...

A cat enjoys a bit of playtime. A proposal to ban cat declawing will soon be back on the table at the New Hampshire State House. The operation to remove a cat’s claws involves amputating the bones on ...

Five states, Washington, D.C., and several cities across the country have outlawed declawing cats. "Declawing" is actually a partial amputation of a cat's paw, akin to amputating a person's hand at ...

EWING, New Jersey -- New Jersey could soon be the first state in the nation to ban the controversial practice of declawing cats. An assembly committee has approved a bill that would ban veterinarians ...

It's a decision that's making plenty say: "It's about time!" After decades of quietly letting people surgically remove the tips of their cats' toes just so their furniture would look better and their ...

Dear Cathy: In your column, "Stronger Case for Declawing," (Oct. 3) your case against declawing was based on opinion and supposition, not on science. There are many reasons for people to declaw cats.

Two new animal welfare laws go into effect in Massachusetts on April 8 One of the laws bans the declawing of cats Declawing causes serious pain and behavioral problems for the cats involved, according ...