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Cruel puppy dealers use Facebook and Instagram to sell suffering animals, report says
(www.independent.co.uk)
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But that's not really considered mutilation now, is it? Most responsible animal welfare orgs impose sterilization on the dogs and cats that come through their doors to help control their populations.
You not agreeing with that is fine, but accusing them of mutilating animals crosses a line.
"Fun" fact, before we routinely spayed and neutered animals, putting a sack of kittens or puppies in a pond was a normal chore.
It was either that, or fight starving street dogs.
My point was only that it is possible to use hyperbole to make a minor procedure seem like a torture session.
There is good mutilation and there is bad mutilation, but it's still mutilation! We accept spaying and neutering even though they are definitely mutilation because they have overall benefits in terms of fewer animals needing to be euthanized. We don't accept ear cropping and tail docking because they lack benefits. But all the procedures entail risk.
You really should have put a /s on OP then, and maybe explained your actual point beneath.
You see spaying as mutilation whereas most of us don't ... because not spaying or neutering cats and dogs means the populations will be out of control; rabies, distemper and other deadly diseases will run rampant; feline leukemia will kill thousands in a painfull death.
As I said before it's fine if you see it as mutilation, but do not suppose that we must all adopt your perspective.
Your point was that we judge the harm of a procedure proportional to its benefits, basically. I don’t really get why you felt the need. Do you support the use of these procedures such as tail/ear docking?
This is now stale, but my greater point was that it is possible to exaggerate how brutal these procedures are in an effort to mislead. Groups like this will use scary language like amputation and mutilation, but they never refer to ovo-hystorectomy in the same way.
The lesser point was that I agree that spaying and neutering is a good thing. Part of that is the benefit to the animal. But none of these surgeries traumatize the animal for life, either. Social costs of ear cropping? Really? Is there no social cost to having no balls?