Ms. Kafer's qualifications for her conclusions seem to be only the fact that she owns three cats.  She is not a vet nor is she employed or involved in animal sheltering or adoption.  She speculates about the harmful (to cats) consequences of a city declaw ban, but the ACTUAL consequences of declaw bans in the cities that have had them in place for years is that cats' lives are saved.  Kafer should do some minimal research and stick to writing about what she knows...if anything.