UPDATE May 2025

We are happy to say that we worked with Pet Vet Care Centers for the last 3 months and gave them lots of information and data to help them through this process of updating their declawing position.

Thanks to their ethical leaders and their Chief Veterinary Advisor, Mariana Crumley, DVM, for showing they truly care about the welfare of cats and they will no longer allow declawing in their vet clinics!! 

Please give them a BIG thank you on their social media pages and take your pets to a PetVet Care Center!!! https://www.petvetcarecenters.com/site/medical-advisory-team

If you want to support the work we are doing to end this barbaric cat cruelty, please go to www.citythekitty.org ! 

Here's PetVet Care Center's new declawing position statement! 

"PetVet Care Centers’ medical leadership team, along with our medical advisory board, aligns with the AAFP in regards to feline declawing. "The American Association of Feline Practitioners (AAFP) strongly opposes declawing (onychectomy) as an elective procedure. It is the obligation of veterinarians to provide cat owners with alternatives to declawing. If owners are considering declawing, they must be provided with complete education about feline declawing, including the anatomic details of what a declaw entails (ie, amputation of the third phalanx [P3]) and the importance of proper pain management. In addition, alternatives to surgery and the risks and benefits of surgery need to be discussed."  As a company, we do not mandate how doctors practice medicine, but we do expect that ethical decisions are made every day with the patient's best interest at heart according to the Veterinarian's Oath. Onychectomy should only be performed when medically necessary with a previously established client-veterinary relationship."

The PetVet Care Center's spokesman said that the "medically necessary" part means if it's medically necessary for the cat and not for the owner. 

 

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February 2025

PetVet Care Centers says their mission is, "We are here to foster a culture of high quality animal care..."

Many PetVet Care Centers perform declawing. 

PetVet Care Center's marketing person sent us their official declawing position statement in February of 2025. Here it is.

"As a veterinary organization committed to medical excellence, PetVet Care Centers strongly discourages the declawing (onychectomy) of cats. We support the stance of the AVMA, as well as the AAFP, that declawing should be avoided and alternative methods should always be explored. We believe that all veterinarians should educate their clients on normal feline behavior and less invasive methods should always be encouraged. PVCC does not believe in mandating veterinarians on how to practice medicine, but we do believe in ethical and educated medical practice, minimizing unnecessary pain and suffering in our patients, and an emphasis on progressive medicine."

Many PetVet Care Centers deceive the public about declawing and when asked if declawing is ok for a cat long term, they say yes.

Our response to them was, "If you believe in ethical practice then there’s no way to allow declawing in your facilities. 
You are not regulating veterinary medicine by disallowing declawing because the unnecessary toe bone amputation procedure is outside the scope of therapeutic medicine. 
By banning declawing, you are preventing animal cruelty, and that is a tenet that is consistent with your goal of providing ethical veterinary medicine and not causing unnecessary pain and suffering." 

Some PetVet Care Centers even perform 4 paw declaws and deceive the public to think that declawing is ok for a cat long term. 

Petvet says this on their website, “Each PetVet hospital is an integral part of their local community, with a team of professionals dedicated to offering you and your pet the finest care in veterinary medicine today.”

Please ask PetVet Care Centers if they consider declawing to be the finest care in veterinary medicine. https://www.facebook.com/petvetcarecenters

 

KKR.com owns PetVet Care Centers. Please send them a polite note and ask them why one of their companies allows this cruel & inhumane amputation procedure. Investor-Relations@kkr.com   media@kkr.com

Declawing is cruel, painful, and harms the long-term well-being of cats. It is below the standard of care.

Declawing is the amputation of a cat's last toe bone. It has absolutely no benefit for the cat and is always bad for a cat's long-term health and well-being.

Progressive, ethical, and humane veterinarians and veterinary companies have DONE THE RIGHT THING and stopped declawing because they know that it is really bad for cats and there are always humane alternatives.

Now that they know better, they are doing better.

VCA, Banfield, American Assoc. of Feline Practitioners (AAFP) and Mission Veterinary Partners (MVP) have banned declawing in their practices.

PetVet, please do your part to help protect cats from this barbaric cruelty and ban declawing.

Thank you,

 City the Kitty and supporters