Actually the shelter rate on cats dropped after the declaw ban was placed in the S.CA community's, the ban did not increase shelter rates. There are thousands of declawed cat surrendered or abandoned due to behavior problems stemming from the declaw, unfortunately these cats will be euthanized. So how is it humane, ethical or compassionate to unnecessarily amputate healthy digits, sentencing a cat to pain & behavior problems and then abandoned the cat because it now pees & poops outside of it's box? Declawing is selfish, inhumane & unnecessary. If a person can't accept the whole cat (claws) then don't have one.