California state Berkeley City Council, unanimously decided "prohibition of cat's fingernail removal" unanimously

California StateBerkeleyIt is said that the city council of the city unanimously decided to ban the cat 's nail clipping operation.

Cat catches pillars and walls when sharpening the nails, so you need to be careful when you keep them at home. So I thought about this nail clipping surgery. It seems that it was fairly popular in America until a while ago, it seems that cats are pulled out from the first joints of a human finger to catch for cats, because the burden on cats is so great I heard that there are not any recently practiced veterinarians.

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Northern California's Berkeley City Council yesterday unanimously decided to prohibit the operation of the cat's nail. The bill submits Jesse Arreguin, who declares that the nail clipper is "a shivering treatment only for the owner of the cat" with Susan Wengraf Rep. Rep. Arreguin added that when this bill goes through, Berkeley City is historically humanitarian to all creations and will continue to be. Similar legislation has passed Congress in the other six California cities (West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Monica).

Representative Arreguin says, "Nail clippers" are not quite different from just cleaning the nails. "Nail removal is a complicated and very painful operation that removes the bone at the tip of the foot, and it is done only for the owner.In my understanding, it is a medical purpose, for example, cancer has spread to the foot I think that you can also withdraw your fingernails, but most of the nail removal surgery that is going on now is the aim of preventing cats from scratching furniture or using nails strangely. "

The California Veterinary Medical Association and others oppose banning surgery because it is impossible for the legislators to ruling on medical treatment. Although the doctors' association does not believe that you should perform a nail clipping surgery, it seems that you are concerned that this prohibition decision will be a precedent.

Dr. Carl Singer says, "I am currently in the situation of pulling out the nail or euthanizing the cat." A veterinarian who supports the prohibition of claw removal came to him and told him that he finally said the evil of the nail clipper.

In the city of Berkeley, the cat nail removal will be treated as a minor crime in the future, and if it is done, it is expected to be a fine of 1000 dollars (about 90,000 yen) or 6 months imprisonment. Reporters of Discovery News speculate that in the coming weeks several other cities will ban the nail clippings as well.

This law will be enforced from January 2010 in the California State Act (SB 762) that "cities in California state should not restrict the measures taken by veterinarians" which becomes a problem with regard to the prohibition of claw removal It has become. When this state law is passed, even if the city decides to ban, there is no way to stop it if the veterinarian goes through the nail clippers.