Professor CrescentFresh wrote:
She lives in Denmark and claims that the US is one of few countries where declawing cats is legal.
This is the sort of comment that raises my eyebrow so I did a quick Google. While a good percentage of Europe has laws against it, the total number of countries where it is outlawed numbers about 20-25. Which, globally speaking, is not remotely near most of the world's nations having outlawed it.
Per Declawing.com, the list of nations with bans is:
Quote:
England
Scotland
Wales
Italy
France
Germany
Austria
Switzerland
Norway
Sweden
Netherlands
Northern Ireland
Ireland
Denmark
Finland
Slovenia
Portugal
Belgium
Brazil
Australia
New Zealand
Yugoslavia
Japan
I don't doubt that this list was once accurate but I have to question the current accuracy of a list that still includes "Yugoslavia". And the UK regions of N. Ireland, Scotland, etc are not true countries, per se.
Edited, Aug 23rd 2006 at 6:57pm EDT by Jophiel