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RI lawmaker to landlords: hands off cat claws
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) Rhode Island landlords would no longer be able to require their tenants to declaw their cats under legislation pending in the states General Assembly.
Senate Majority Leader Dominick Ruggerio announced his proposal Thursday. Ruggerios proposal would also prohibit landlords from demanding that their tenants remove the vocal cords of dogs as a condition of occupancy.
The North Providence Democrats says landlords shouldnt be allowed to demand that tenants subject their pets to what he calls inhumane acts.
The proposal is similar to a law in California, which was the first state to make it illegal for landlords to demand tenants to declaw a cat.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode-island/2013/02/14/lawmaker-landlords-hands-off-cat-claws/b8bnOqe9NZjFA7PyrdLyrK/story.html
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)Anyone who does either act should surrender their own vocal cords or toenails. Maybe even finger nails, too.
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)declawing of cats is needless cruelty. Same goes for ear cropping and tail docking for dogs.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)What's next? Demanding that people cut off their kid's feet so they don't run? If they don't like pets then they shouldn't rent to people with pets. I can see limiting rents to small animals and maybe limiting the number to two animals in apartments, but other than that, it's really up to the owner to make sure their pets and children, for that matter, are relatively well behaved. Dogs bark when they are left alone and cats tear up stuff when they are bored. There is no need for draconian solutions.
TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)What country is this?
NJCher
(35,687 posts)Some fragments of sense show through now and then.
Yay! A victory for cats!
Cher
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)KNR