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Thursday, October 9, 2025

Gavin Newsom Signs Anti Declaw Bill AB 867 in California Making Cat Declaw Illegal by Animal Advocates, Mary Cummins

Governor Gavin Newsom just signed California bill AB 867 banning cat declaw aka onychectomy. California is now the third U.S. state to do so after New York and Maryland. The law only permits veterinarians to perform declawing when medically necessary to address an issue with the claws, nail bed, or toe bone that compromises the cat's health. This action is part of a growing trend, with over a dozen U.S. cities and many other countries also prohibiting declawing due to concerns about its harm and the availability of humane alternatives.  

I've known the main proponent of the bill veterinarian Dr Jennifer Conrad for 25 years. She's been the veterinarian for Animal Advocates for many years. I met her at a Los Angeles Animal Services Commission meeting in 2000. She was speaking about banning cat declaw at the meeting. She has worked extremely hard over the many years to get cat declaw banned. First she got domestic cat declaw banned in West Hollywood in 2003. Then she got big cat declaw banned in California in 2004. Then she got big cat declaw banned for all animals under a USDA license in the US in 2006. She got cat declaw banned in other cities and states. She made it illegal for landlords to mandate that tenants' cats be declawed in 2012.

During all of this time Jenny Conrad faced huge obstacles from the veterinary industry who makes money off cat declaw. She had paid lobbyists such as Ed Boks, Edward Boks fighting her proposed declaw bans. Edward Boks was paid to go to city council meetings to promote cat declaw. Ed Boks even made a website with lots of articles he wrote promoting the benefits of declaw and minimizing all the huge drawbacks. I bet he will now come out and say he was always against cat declaw. I saved his old website and articles if anyone needs them. His user name is listed as the author of the blog and articles. He took money to promote cruelty to animals. 

There were others who fought against Jenny such as Dave Weisman, AVMA, CVMA. Some  had personal agendas and others just wanted to keep making millions by inhumanely amputating cats' claws causing them life long suffering. I'm so thankful that good won out over evil. It only took over 25 years of very hard stressful work by a team of animal advocates. 

Author Assemblymember Alex Lee, Coauthor Senator Weiner

Link to bill https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB867/id/3186763




Mary Cummins of Animal Advocates is a wildlife rehabilitator licensed by the California Department of Fish and Game and the USDA. Mary Cummins is also a licensed real estate appraiser in Los Angeles, California.


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Saturday, October 25, 2014

Dr.Jennifer Conrad of the Paw Project received an award from our Mayor Eric Garcetti - Mary Cummins, Animal Advocates

Dr. Jennifer Conrad, Jenny Conrad, Eric Garcetti, Mayor Eric Garcetti - Mary Cummins, Animal Advocates
Our founder, Dr. Jennifer Conrad, is recognized by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti for her efforts to help cats (in 2013). In 2009, the Paw Project sponsored the local ordinance that bans declawing in the city of Los Angeles. #pawproject

Mary Cummins of Animal Advocates is a wildlife rehabilitator licensed by the California Department of Fish and Game and the USDA. Mary Cummins is also a licensed real estate appraiser in Los Angeles, California.


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Sunday, June 15, 2014

Review of documentary The Paw Project - Mary Cummins Animal Advocates


Review of documentary "The Paw Project" by Mary Cummins of Animal Advocates

The Paw Project documentary by Dr Jennifer Conrad now on iTunes, U-verse, Dish, Amazon, Netflix
The Paw Project documentary by Dr Jennifer Conrad now on iTunes, U-verse, Dish, Amazon, Netflix

Review of the documentary The Paw Project. Available on Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, U-verse and Dish. Join The Paw Project on Facebook.

Criminals sometimes cut off parts of people's fingers with a cigar cutter as a form of torture. Slave owners used to cut off toes as a form of punishment. And yet here in the United States declawing (onychectomy)cats is still legal in almost every city in the nation. This needs to change.

For many years the veterinary associations have been trying to hide their dirty little secret which is declawing cats. Most veterinarians are hush hush to their clients about what declawing actually involves. It involves cutting off the entire last digit of cats' paws. Imagine someone using a cigar cutter to cut off the last digit of your finger. This is the reality that is cat declawing. They don't even reattach the severed tendons so the paw can sometimes end up useless besides painful. Declawing also causes many horrible behavioral problems.

I'm very glad this movie was made. We need to educate the public to the real horrors of declawing cats. I'm sure if people knew what was actually involved and the horribly painful consequences they would not want this done to their cats. There are so many easy alternatives to inappropriate scratching from scratchy trees to nail caps to double sided tape. There is absolutely no reason why anyone should ever declaw their cat.

"The Paw Project" documentary was very well made. Dr Jennifer Conrad, the other anti-declaw veterinarians and cat owners in the movie gave compelling narratives as to why this surgery is totally unnecessary besides incredibly inhumane. Thanks for making this documentary.

Mary Cummins
Animal Advocates
http://www.AnimalAdvocates.us


Mary Cummins of Animal Advocates is a wildlife rehabilitator licensed by the California Department of Fish and Game and the USDA. Mary Cummins is also a licensed real estate appraiser in Los Angeles, California.


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