Show your claws
With all the real issues a city council must deal with, to spend time on nonsense issues makes no sense to me.
What is a real issue and what is nonsense?
A key committee of the Los Angeles City Council voted today to seek a law banning veterinarians from declawing cats, saying the procedure constituted cruelty to animals.
The council’s Public Safety Committee unanimously recommended that City Atty. Carmen Trutanich draft an ordinance banning the practice. The proposal was made by Councilmen Bill Rosendahl and Paul Koretz, who said the procedure caused “unnecessary pain, anguish and permanent disability” to cats.
Councilman Tony Cardenas threw his support behind the measure but voiced doubts that the city’s Animal Services Department had enough employees to enforce such a law. He also worried that cat owners will simply go to veterinarians in neighboring cities to get the procedure, sometimes known as an onychectomy.
“I don’t want to give you false hope,” Councilman Greig Smith told the audience of cat advocates and assorted city employees. “This is not going to stop the problem.”
The Political Philosophy Class will be discussing this next week.
Your comments are welcome now.
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November 9th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
Awesome… because what we need is for more people to tell us how to live.
Has this guy been nominated Cat Czar yet?