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Originally Posted by gracielove 
I don't have a problem with dressing a dog if it doesn't mind it. Subjecting a dog to hair dyes and piercings is just abuse. People are trying to inflict their tendencies on the dog and that is just too complicated to go into here. People who should never own a dog are getting them to use as a poster board to others about who they are. It's sad. When the person gets tired of their little project it ends up in a shelter or passed from home to home. |
I finally got the courage to click on that link with all the strangely groomed dogs and painted or dyes ones - some really are works of art - don't agree myself with doing it to dogs or cats but it's fascinating - and then I saw that pug with the nose ring in! Couldn't look anymore. Now, unless that is light plastic and just barely hanging in there for a photo op, you KNOW that hurt that poor dog really bad to pierce it and put that thing in there the first and many subsequent times, if it's real. When I had my ears pierced, dang things were sore forever, festered up, wept and oozed and putting the studs, etc., in were like pulling teeth!!!! Poor puggy baby.
I hope if that ring is real they stop there and don't poke him anywhere else for their enjoyment and attention-craving need. And I pray he never comes across another dog or anything that tugs on it! That would hurt and bleed like anything. If these piercings are real, and I'm too squeamish to look further, who does them?????? Would a licensed vet do this to a dog for money? If not, wouldn't it be practicing veterinary medicine without a license to do this for the public and charge? How would you get a dog to lie still through it without anesthesia? You can't even clean their teeth without anesthesia, let alone stick something through it's skin and out another side!
It's hard in a way to think anyone would try to pierce a dog's body - that would take a lot of antisocial, psychotic skills in my mind - but then I remember the thread on here about the starving dogs and things I've seen about animal cruelty and thought, yes, a few people would pierce a dog.
