I had to laugh at the we Peirce out babies ears and circumcise them...no not here. I'm a conundrum...but at least I'm not about defending training a dog to not injure and self clean and then mutalating children or worse defending not altering a dog for looks but doing o to a child.
I'm debating and pro the 'mutilation' (let's call it what it is altering is a form of mutilation here) of my animals because it's for their own good I can't train my dog to stop getting ear infections to run carefully when playing ball or not to scrape his tail. But when it comes to altering children without their consent as baby's I'll flip out.
I can train my son's to wash their 'winkies' so hygiene wise we're good, I don't plan on having my son's sit in trenches where in WWII 5% of soldiers got infection and we didn't start circumcision until them and part of it was political...we aren't Jewish the free men nation of Cherokee in South Carolina just got back the last of the DNA results we in fact are not of any Jewish ancestry which is liek anyways way OT- My son's fit in here just fine less than 30% of the population here circumcises their boys.
Did yall know
you should never pierce ears before 7 years in the least the ears are still growing! Not to mention your daughter should choose to mutilate her body or not herself....
oh, and yes I am a hypocrite on this because, I have 15 tattoos, at one point in my life my belly pierced and my tongue

two holes in each ear and a fifth ear piercing at the top (how tacky were those in the 90's? I know not as tacky as my tongue-but the glow stick balls were awesome!). I never did get that chin piercing...my children will never have tattoos my daughter thinks they are so lame because her mom has them her rebellion is to not to YAY for one of life's little miracles!
LOL I freaked out when I first read about tattooing a dog! I was like why! what's wrong with you people! I didn't realize it was to show they had been altered already for females or to provide a # to be registered to the owners before micro-chipping.