When I was little we had One of those breeds of dog that most people clip their tails I can’t remember the type of dog it was I just remember that everybody kept telling us over and over why didn’t you clip your dogs tail and we just said because there’s no reason to it doesn’t need it. My parents refused to do cosmetic surgery on animals like that I guess you can call it cosmetic surgery. You know the clipping of the ears and the tail. And honestly I refuse to do it too. And I refuse to buy or get animals that had that done to them. Couple months ago we actually had a chance to get a new puppy and the guy said that you have to wait another two weeks and we asked him why because I thought the puppies were of age he said because they’re still healing from their tail removal and clipped ears.
I told him you can keep the dogs we don’t want them and I told him off for doing that to the poor things.
I also hate people who declaw cats you know that’s cutting off part of their fingers!
WORD! Throw debarking and fucking tattooing sphynx cats in there too. Damn I've seen people piercing their cats ears just to give them shiny earrings wtf.
The only thing that should happen to animals is chipping.
If the animals truly need to get the ears clipped or the tail removed due due to heath that is a whole different thing but to do it just to make them look a certain way is beyond insane.
People are given trying to get it removed from animal shows you don’t like dog Competitions. I love them say they would stop crapping their dogs ears and cutting the dogs tail if only they were going to win but the judges keep wanting people to do those things or the dock in points
There are A FEW legitimate operations CERTAIN dogs or breeds CAN benefit from circumstantially- Dew claw removal MAY be a prudent preventative measure but it also has risks and potential draw backs and often it is held that removing dewclaws should be done as a reaction to injury in most cases of needed. Cropping ears is generally NOT necessary and is barbaric. There are VERY few examples for legitimate “war” or “fighting” dogs where war cropping has actual practical value- and wanting your dog to look like a fighting dog is an asinine reason to disfigure it.
Some working dogs MAYBE could benefit from clipped ears. Regardless the argument for the practice even where it might actually be warranted is still EXTREMELY circumstantial and still must beg the question of wether you’d surgically modify your child for pragmatism in such a way- like cutting the ears off human fighters to prevent injury etc. That said- doing such things for NO GOOD REASON is certainly disgusting.
We had a dog named Savanna sweetest dumbest thing you ever seen. She was swore to us half chihuahua half Dachshund. But they had a male pit there when we got her. Her mama was a dachshund for sure but the dog was already bigger than it’s mom when we got her it was half pit.
Anyways lol she had on her two back feet extra toes. They had claws and a pad but the claw bone was not connected to any other bone. You could hold the toe and rotate it 360. She would get them caught on every thing. Our vet said if we wanted we could remove them but we refused. It didn’t harm her yeah grass and string snagged them but we just trimmed them like her other toe nails and they didn’t.
Plus she had a habit of sucking on it. Lol she would stretch her back legs to her mouth while she lay down and look like she was bitting the side of her foot but she was sucking on her extra toe. She did it for comfort.
Sadly a lot of pit bulls that have cropped ears are less likely to be adopted into caring homes BECAUSE they "look mean." Usually the people that WANT cropped ears on a dog aren't the ones that should have a dog.
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They don't get a choice in their ears being cropped and then they get punished BECAUSE they have their ears cropped
I actually think the bullies with the cropped ears look less menacing. Something about their short little ears and their big ol heads just makes them look so silly.
Now Boxers on the other hand. They look kinda scary when their ears are cut.
Big, black pit bulls with cropped ears and any type of scarring are among the least likely to be adopted from shelters, regardless of their temperament. Though I've always preferred black animals tbh
I told him you can keep the dogs we don’t want them and I told him off for doing that to the poor things.
I also hate people who declaw cats you know that’s cutting off part of their fingers!
If the animals truly need to get the ears clipped or the tail removed due due to heath that is a whole different thing but to do it just to make them look a certain way is beyond insane.
People are given trying to get it removed from animal shows you don’t like dog Competitions. I love them say they would stop crapping their dogs ears and cutting the dogs tail if only they were going to win but the judges keep wanting people to do those things or the dock in points
Anyways lol she had on her two back feet extra toes. They had claws and a pad but the claw bone was not connected to any other bone. You could hold the toe and rotate it 360. She would get them caught on every thing. Our vet said if we wanted we could remove them but we refused. It didn’t harm her yeah grass and string snagged them but we just trimmed them like her other toe nails and they didn’t.
Plus she had a habit of sucking on it. Lol she would stretch her back legs to her mouth while she lay down and look like she was bitting the side of her foot but she was sucking on her extra toe. She did it for comfort.
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They don't get a choice in their ears being cropped and then they get punished BECAUSE they have their ears cropped
Now Boxers on the other hand. They look kinda scary when their ears are cut.