People amaze me.. Update

[lovesduckies]

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i have seen from research that it is "safe" for the pet, but why? it looks dumb in my opinion and it's not like the animal even knows or cares really. their minds aren't as complex as ours. it's all for selfish human entertainment. i don't think that sitting there while having their fur colored is fun for them. i think it might actually stress them out more than anything.

I would say it depends on the temperament of the animals, some just sit there going WOOO! ATTENTION! others are like :| this bores me, i know the poodle i saw with the pink paw print on its hip was for a fund raising for the local pet shelter

idk.. to each is own i guess.. i know i joke about painting my husbands annoying dog's nails, but i would never actually do it, as much as she bugs me. she wouldn't ever be able to stay still either lol. i tried diapering my ducks when they lived inside but they didn't accept it, because it's not natural.

 

[gritsar]

As far as the tattoing goes...In Buncombe County, NC where I spent most of my life the spay and neuter clinic tatts every animal that comes through their doors. This saves the animal from unnecessary anesthesia should they get lost and then rescued by another person, etc.

I had a dog that came from a Buncombe county shelter. The first three months I had her she never barked and as she was an abuse seizure when I got her there was some concern that she couldn't bark because of a damaged throat. Rather than take her through the spay/neuter clinic that does all the animals adopted from the shelters there, the shelter agreed to foot the vet bill for her to be done at a private vet. The clinic did not have the equipment necessary to treat her if she were to have breathing trouble during the surgery.

The day came for her spaying and I took her to the private vet. As they were shaving her in prep. for the surgery they found that tatt. on the inside of her leg that proved that she had already been spayed; saving her from another time under anesthesia. I'm glad that the county has that policy and I wish more shelters would follow their lead.

Both of my dogs are microchipped. It didn't faze them when the vet implanted them. As far as doing something just to change the look of the dogs, I am against it. Why would I want to anyhow? I have the two best looking dogs in the world.

 

[sunny & the 5 egg layers]

If the animal likes it and is not fighting the owner in any way and the dye doesnt have anything that could be harmful to the animal in it, I do not see a problem with somebody dying their pets fur once in a while.

 

[mom'sfolly]

Have you ever been to a 4H show? Those animals are washed, brushed, blow dried, hair sprayed, anti-staticked etc. Or watched a dog show? I guarantee no collie's fur naturally flows as in as lovely a way as a dog at Westminster's does. Those dogs are treated with things to make them look that way.

We shave our dogs in different patterns, we blacken our horse's hooves, we tattoo numbers, or tag ears on cows, etc. People have been modifying their pets for along time. Yes, some people take it to an extreme, but some of it just plain fun.

This one is just plain fun:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...e-owners-dye-pets-look-like-wild-animals.html

 

[Avalon1984]

I shaved a heart onto my colts butt this year to show the buyer that he accepted it with no issues. I liked it. It was cute. He didn't care.

 

[AquaEyes]

This is nothing new. Cultures have been revering animals in many ways as far back as their archaeological remains will go. Egyptians mummified animals to secure them for the "afterlife" -- in that culture, the highest form of "humanizing" I can think of.

 

[rancher hicks]

Seems to me that sometimes , folks are substituting animals for humans. Lonely people do this. Perhaps can't make the connection to other humans. So they are their "babies". Substitutes for children they either no longer have or didn't. Even heard of a woman who called her poodle her "lover". Nuts perhaps.

Truth is stranger than fiction,

Rancher

 

[Matthew3590]

Dogs don't mind. If dyeing fur is animal abuse then giving a dog a bath that does not want one is animal abuse as well.

 

[Royd]

The one that gets me is people referring to the killing of an animal, whether accidental or intentional, as murder....No, murder only refers to humans.

 

[AquaEyes]

I don't mean this toward anyone in particular, but for the future, please use the word "dyeing" instead of "dying" when talking about what people do to their pets' fur. PLEASE, this isn't a rant on spelling or grammar, just that I keep picturing something else when I read the posts, and I don't think I'm the only one. Thanks.