Before the Tacoma City Council voted to ban cat declawing except when medically necessary, a leader said the time was right to "choose cats, not couches."
My ex-wife was pretty adamant about having the front claws removed from our girl. Not a day goes by that I feel terrible about it. My cat is now 14 and I see the discomfort in her when she walks.
I'm for it. I feel it's justifiable as many cities have a cat overpopulation problem, plus it curtails destructive, difficult to control behaviors like spraying and that horrible yowling they make when they're looking to Catflix and chill. If we didn't have so many unhoused cats and they weren't such raging dicks when they still have their gonads, I'd easily feel differently.