Why is the American Red Cross helping a company like AAHA.org get more business when they allow cat mutilation (declawing) in their AAHA accredited animal hospitals? Aren't they in the business of disaster relief and ending suffering & not helping a company that supports animal cruelty? 

More about AAHA and declawing. https://citythekitty.org/why-does-aaha-org-choose-profits-over-the-welfare-of-innocent-cats/

Dear Red Cross,

 You do amazing things to help people in times of disasters. Your mission is to prevent and alleviate human suffering.

We would also hope that you would want to alleviate animal suffering and see the value in not rewarding and promoting a company like AAHA.org on your Pet First Aid App that allows declawing and causes unnecessary cat suffering, torture, abuse, mutilation, and cruelty. 

You have an awesome Red Cross Pet First Aid App that helps pet owners in so many great ways. When pet owners need to find a vet clinic for their pets in an emergency, your App directs them to find an AAHA Accredited Animal Hospital.

We sent you the links to VCA, Banfield, American Assoc. of Feline Practitioners, and Fear Free Pets practices since they banned this animal cruelty in their clinics. We also told you that PetSmart, Petco, and Mission Veterinary Partners vet clinics have all banned this gruesome amputation procedure. 

 But you don't want to use these ethical and humane companies who took a stand to protect innocent cats from this horrific and inhumane amputation procedure for your Pet App.

Is it because AAHA.org is paying you lots of money to be the exclusive company on your Pet App? What is the reason you would support AAHA when you know they allow this barbaric cat cruelty for profit, they allow their AAHA hospitals to advertise declawing, and they allow their vets to fight to stop declawing bans? 

AAHA is the last big veterinary company that allows this inhumane, cruel, and unnecessary amputation procedure (declawing) in their hospitals.

AAHA came out with a declaw communications toolkit to HELP their declawing hospitals address this issue of declawing.

AAHA gave their 2020 Animal Hospital of the Year Award to Manheim Pike Veterinary Hospital in PA who was performing many declaw procedures and then when we published our story about this, they sicced their lawyers on us and forced us to take down lots of their declawing information. Their actions tried to intimidate us from shining light on the fact that AAHA allows this animal cruelty (declawing) in their hospitals. Here's the story about their 2020 hospital of the year. AAHA 2020 declawing hospital of the year

AAHA also gave their 2023 Practice of the Year award to an AAHA hospital that declaws cats. https://citythekitty.org/aaha-org-had-4-finalists-for-their-2023-practice-of-the-year-3-of-them-dont-declaw-cats-aaha-chose-the-declawing-clinic-as-the-winner/

We emailed the Red Cross and suggested that they should put ethical companies, who banned declawing, on their Pet App instead of AAHA.org. 

The Red Cross App folks said about this issue according to their PR person, "They stated that the hospitals listed in the app are by no means an endorsement of them. They are simply locations where pet owners can go if faced with an emergency while they are traveling and/or away from home."

So the Red Cross says that they don't endorse the AAHA hospitals  but clearly they ARE endorsing AAHA.org if they have this company on their App!

We also made it easy for the Red Cross Pet App folks and sent them these links that they can use that will direct pet owners to vet hospitals that do not perform this animal cruelty (declawing).

Here are the links to locate vet clinics that don't declaw cats.
VCA. Over 1000 vet hospitals - https://vcahospitals.com/find-a-hospital

American Assoc. of Feline Practitioners- Over 1000 Cat Friendly Practices- https://catvets.com/cat-owners/find-vets-and-practices

Banfield. Over 1000 practices. https://www.banfield.com/locations

Fear free practice locator link. They have hundreds of vet clinics throughout America.
https://fearfreepets.com/resources/directory/

Please be better Red Cross and don't be complicit when it comes to this animal cruelty.

It is entirely possible that some of the money in membership dues that AAHA.org receives from their declawing hospitals is made from performing this barbaric, inhumane, cruel, and unnecessary amputation procedure (declawing).

This should be really easy for the Red Cross to do the right thing and stop rewarding a company like AAHA.org that lies, that sics their lawyers on people who are trying to end this animal cruelty, that makes a DECLAW Communications Toolkit to HELP their declawing hospitals, that puts the welfare of their pocketbooks over the welfare of innocent cats, and that won't do the right thing and ban declawing in their accredited animal hospitals. 

Please send a polite note to the Red Cross and ask them to do the right thing and stop using AAHA.org as the go to animal hospital locator.

Here's the Red Cross contact form. https://www.redcross.org/contact-us/general-inquiry.html

Their email is mobile@redcross.org, you can leave feedback on the Red Cross Pet App, and you can rate the Red Cross Pet App.

Let us know if you get a reply! 

CitytheKitty.org