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Slicing
up and chopping off parts of your still-living pet animal is
completely legal in most of the United States. These excruciatingly painful and medically
unnecessary procedures include operations known as "tail
docking," "ear cropping," and "declawing" — names that
deceptively hide the true nature of their
horrors. Tail docking involves surgically
chopping off a dog's tail, usually without any anesthesia. Ear
cropping refers to the practice of cutting a poor pup's ears
into separate pieces, and then reassembling and taping them to
a hard surface. After a few weeks, the ears "cure" to form the
desired shape: perky triangular ears that stand upright.
Meanwhile, declawing is not a
simple exercise in trimming a cat's nails — it's intended to
stop a feline's nails from ever growing back. And the
only way to do that is by sawing off the cat's first
knuckle on each toe. You might think that
veterinarians, who have sworn to care for vulnerable animals,
would never participate in such medieval tortures, but
unfortunately that's not the case. Every year, countless
licensed vets actually agree to perform these surgeries on
helpless pets. And any person who would promote this kind of
cruelty should not be allowed to practice veterinary medicine.
Sign the petition to demand that every U.S.
state classifies these heinous surgeries as animal abuse and
strips the licenses of any veterinarians
involved!
Thank you for all that you do,
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Miranda
B.
The Care2 Petitions Team |
P.S. No one who
mutilates pets in this way should be allowed to remain a
veterinarian. Demand that any and all veterinarians who
perform these slice-and-dice procedures lose their licenses
now! |
