Ears Stand Corrected - Cosmetic Surgery For Pets

Are you annoyed by your dog’s drooping ears or your cat’s tail that can sweap off a coffee table in a split second? Is your Chiwawa being too loud and your Calico scratching a little too much? In our society, there are many cosmetic procedures which have the ability to transform our pets into the best citizens of their kind, into members of other breeds or into denizens of imaginary breeds.

Some might even argue that these cosmetic surgeries enhance the overall quality of a pet’s life while some might say these procedures are mean, aesthetically driven and more for the benefit of the pet owners
than for the pets themselves.

Cosmetic surgery for pets is not by any means a new phenomenon. In the late 1800’s and the early twentieth century cosmetic surgery or alteration was the norm, particularly in the cat show world.

Such methods as tail bobbing and ear reducing to create the deceptive image of another breed were practices not at all unheard of.

And there are other cosmetic procedures for pets that sound oddly like procedures for people. Evidently we are not the only ones who can get a nose job. This is done primarily for health reasons, as some animal breeds are more prone

to getting infections and so on. And has your kitten eaten too much lasagna and cannot seem to shed the resulting weight? Then your pet might have a liposuction done. And it does not end there. There is also the altering of eyelids to change eye shape and face lifts to alter the pet's face. And particularly for show pets there are prosthetic testicles for dogs and laser depilation to enhance the looks of "hairless" cats.

Holistic veternarian Dr. Jane Bicks has performed her fair share of these elective surgeries. Once she gave a face lift to a dog who had facial folds so severe that his eyes were partially covered over! She had to rid the dog’s face of its unsightly folds and after it was all said and done, the eyes looked around two times as big as before.

She also did a nose job on her horse, a horse whom that she had rescued and who had a mangled nose. She replaced the nose and stitched it back on while not changing the natural style.

Some animal advocates say there is a morality issue doing this to pets who basically did not request it and who did not concur with it(and the pain that goes along with it) just to look a specific way.

It is really quite surprising all the other cosmetic surgery procedures that are done all of the time. For additional information about Pet issues and nutrition visit Premium4Pets.com and find out more.

This article initially appeared in the May 2005 issue of the Healthy Pet Net Newsletter