[gracielove]

Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly

Anyone that would pierce a grown, non-infant dog who has full sensation and a well-developed neurological system that can FEEL all that piercing to the hilt at the time it happens while being held down and then have to deal with the healing and changing of all those studs is plainly sadistic. A 3 day-old neonate puppy who's just had a tail dock/dews removed has only limited sensation in his still rudimentary nervous system, and he routinely settles to sleep within 3 minutes of the dock/dews procedures ending and is well-healed by the time his nervous system has matured enough to feel much sensation at all. To the contrary, I imagine that bull terrier felt every single piercing and doubt he settled to sleep anywhere near a 3 minute window after the piercings were done! I'll bet that poor guy hurt for days and was tender, sore for weeks, as he likely wasn't pierced as a days-old infant with little sensory development. And I wonder if being a fully developed dog when pierced, anybody considered how he felt as every hole was being made, if the person "working" on him considered how darn scared he must have been during the whole procedure as people or strong ties restrained his struggling body. And I'm sure that poor, hapless dog was fairly well traumatized by the time all the piercings were done and those studs were one-by-one inserted into freshly pierced, living skin!!!

I wonder if anyone bothered to give him a post-piercing pain shot or pill and some pain meds while he was healing and feeling every sore, open area! I would be willing to bet money he had no such relief at all.

What a horrible story I'll bet that poor dog has to tell if he could but talk about what all was done to him from the time they started walking toward him and he knew the fear inside that something bad was about to happen to him, then held him down, at times with great force, did their grisly, painful work for who knows how long and finally let him go! Then, no doubt, later that person was expecting kisses from his dog! The whole thing gives me nightmares!

But don't you realize that dog owners have the "right" to do as they please to their pets??? We would not want to offend the "rights" of the pet owner now would we???