Why is the American Red Cross promoting a company like AAHA.org that allows animal cruelty (declawing) in their animal hospitals? Aren't they in the business of disaster relief & not cruelty promotion?

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 that allows cat suffering, torture, abuse, mutilation, and cruelty in their animal hospitals.

You have an awesome Pet 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. But you don't want to use these ethical companies in your Red Cross Pet App who took a stand to protect innocent cats from this horrific amputation procedure.

Is it because AAHA.org is paying you lots of money to be the exclusive company on your Pet App?

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

VCA, Banfield, Mission Veterinary Partners, and the American Assoc. of Feline Practitioners (AAFP's Cat Friendly Practices) have all stopped allowing this animal cruelty in their vet practices.

We wrote the Red Cross and suggest 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."

How can the Red Cross say that they don't endorse the AAHA hospitals that their own App is directing pet owners to?

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 Pets will no longer allow declawing in their practices on Dec 31st. )
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 clinics.

Please send a polite note to the Red Cross and ask them to do the right thing.

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.

City the Kitty and supporters.  More about AAHA's hypocrisy. Is AAHA greedy, evil, or spineless?