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Originally Posted by chachi  I consider myself an advocate of animals too but I also keep in mind owners rights. |
I think owners should have rights within reason. Loading a poor little dog up with a bow on its topknot, dress and diaper, necklace, row of ear studs down the side of one ear and booty bling with a nice double-pair of shoes and a faux fur coat isn't far off for some misguided women and we all know it. I stopped at a Pet Boutique in Forney today and they had little puppies there for sale all dressed up. Puppies. Little tiny babies hampered by clothing and big bows on their heads. One had this tight tutu of stiff net on around its soft little belly. They were talking about their "teddy bear" vs. "doll" faces and who liked what. A price of $2800.00 was quote for one "in the back"(?) and there was a little Maltese that had eye drainage and discoloration all down its face!!! I ran out of there when I realized those dogs in cages were not the workers' pets or there waiting grooming - they were selling them!
They had rows and rows of those net tutu's - all with a hard, stiff rubber covered in netting band to hold it on the dog. It itched as I touched it. I asked if dogs didn't hate having that hard squeezing band around its tummy and she said "Oh, no, they love it!" I told her my dog would roll around in the floor until he got it off him - and that's when I heard the talk about the $2800.00.
I imagine before long we will see all those nose piercings and rows of ears studs and other dog part piercings just as we see on people who go OT on their own piercings! AND YOU KNOW THERE WILL BE DO-IT-YOURSELF DOG-PIERCINGS!!! Poor dogs! Makes me sick. Once people start to treat a dog like an object or child and not an animal
free to look like and be an animal and enjoy the carefree life of a dog, owners' rights start to really bug me.