Meow Kitty - California lawmakers have stepped in to keep your claws intact

Even if your favorite couch is being torn to shreds, a cat's paws are sacred ground

The title of this piece should actually be “Laws and Claws.”

In its infinite wisdom, the California State Legislature passed - and our dear governor signed - 794 new laws that we will all now have to dutifully follow in the Year of Our Lord 2026 or face deportation to El Salvador. Or maybe Klamath Falls.

There was also one Constitutional Amendment that was approved by the voters, but we have no one to blame for that one but ourselves.

Still, when you think about it, 794 is a very large number of new things we have to worry about that were apparently perfectly legal in 2025.

Then again, when you elect “lawmakers,” what do you expect them to do other than make laws?

I mean, if you contact pest control to do a routine inspection of your home, sure as shooting, they’re going to find termites eating away at everything you hold dear.

It’s why I never go to the doctor anymore. I don’t need to be told by a trained professional with a stethoscope bouncing off his or her chest that my feet, my ankles, my knees, my back, my pelvis and my hips are no longer functioning as God intended and “there’s really nothing” they can do about it. And no, I don’t want to take a copy of the X-rays home with me.