CRAZY FEMALE!!!!!
CATS ARE NOOOOOTTTT A HANDBAG!!!!!!
WHAT DOES SHE THINK SHE IS??!!!??????????????????????

Let’s just say that the hairless breeders of the Peterbald, Donskoy and Sphynx are getting pretty upset with anyone doing this. If we see you, let’s just say the PETA people who throw paint on fur wearers will look like a tea party compared to what we’ll do to you.

Have a pleasant day.

The cat doesn’t care. The tat IS super sweet.

Tail docking, ear clipping… way worse then this.

I’m very disappointed.

That’s just not acceptable- anesthesia is usually safe, but far from 100% safe 100% of the time- especially not given the very sketchy way it looks like that cat was sedated/anesthetized (no IV catheter, no monitoring equipment, I could go on and on).

The American Veterinary Medical Association has just reaffirmed and strengthened their stance on cosmetic procedures for animals (http://www.avma.org/issues/policy/animal_welfare/tail_docking.asp). Hopefully the vets in this country won’t participate by providing anesthetic to anyone wishing this “procedure”.

It was never a matter of dissatisfaction with the job itself, or any sort of burn out. I enjoyed it far too much for that.

This is horrific not in that a tattoo is so harmful, because animals have been getting tattooed for identification for years (obviously not on an elaborate and ridiculous scale like this tat), but for the reasoning behind it. So it’s a week of itching and pain afterwards for the cat, after a relatively risky procedure. Not a big deal if you look at it from that perspective, but it is a big deal when you consider the fact that it’s bordering on abusive because there is no practical purpose for it.

Those of you commenting about cropping tails and ears on dogs – at one time, for some (not all) breeds, there was a practical purpose behind this. I don’t agree with it unless it’s for a working dog that would fall into this category. People, and kennel clubs are moving away from the unecessary ear and tail cropping little by little. Boxers in Germany are automatically disqualified if you crop their ears in any competition, and the uproar over the breeding practices in the UK has brought a lot of this stuff to light and bringing about changes.

Putting a tattoo on a cat, or any animal for the sole purpose of stroking one’s ego is stupid and wrong. I don’t know what’s worse with this – that the owner thought of it at all, or that someone actually said, “Yeah, I’ll do it.”

Then, in the comments someone says that next big thing will be piercings, and someone else says babies with tattoos will be next… So wouldn’t babies with pierced ears fall into the same category of someone getting a body mod without being capable of giving consent?

People can be so inconsistent sometimes, it makes me really wonder.

But it think there’s a ton of animal cosmetic procedures that need to be outlawed,too. If it’s only for modification of the looks of an otherwise normal healthy animal, animals shouldn’t have to go through any surgical procedures. That goes for the surgery on Dobermans and Great Danes and such that makes their ears stand up and docking tails on pets. I think it’s odd that while lots of people are outraged by animal tattooing, they’re not “horrified” by seeing Dobermans with unnaturally pointed upright ears . That procedure is really painful. Much more painful than a tattoo. I guess it’s just been being done longer. Things that are gross become less gross the more used to them we are I guess.

If people want painful cosmetic procedures to be beautiful, it’s up to them. But animal owners shouldn’t be able to choose to hurt their animals to make them prettier.

“The owner should be neutered, such stupidity should be removed from the gene pool.”
Ditto that.