Declawing cats is quite common here in the United States but in many countries it is illegal.
Countries where declawing cats is illegal: England
Scotland
Wales
Italy
France
Germany
Austria
Switzerland
Norway
Sweden
Netherlands
Northern Ireland
Ireland
Denmark
Finland
Slovenia
Portugal
Belgium
Brazil
Australia
New Zealand
Yugoslavia
I was unaware of this myself and a lot of the details about declawing until I read a very informative post on the cat forum by a cat forum member named rescue.mom
I invite you to read this before deciding to get your cats claws removed.