I've heard that declawing is no longer legal in certain areas and more and more vets refuse to do it. I have 3 cats and none are declawed. I find that giving their claws a weekly trim is all that is needed to keep them from doing damage to furniture.

True - it's going the same way as tail docking and ear cropping.
It can be hard to find a vet here to do it - mainly because around here the way to do it is using the laser - so if clinics don't have it, they don't offer it.

I just want to add to those of you who are saying not to declaw, let me point out that some of us live in apartment complexes that allow cats but the rules are to front paw declaw them. When I was looking for apartments in my area and it seemed when