buffie Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 Yes not sure if I should have posted it so I hope I haven't upset anyone. BBx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 No Buffie I am not upset I think what I am trying to say is that while having an animal put to sleep is not nice it is somehow selfish to allow something with no ability to have a quality of life to live is wrong (to me) I accept other will see it differently but to make a freak show of that poor creature just makes me feel a little ill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnieP Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 Me too Louise. Its gross. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel (& Paul) Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 It was pretty gross, but dont forget it was some time back when there were far more "freak" shows out on the road and it would have been considered quite normal for a poor farmer to want to make some money out of something like that. Now we just have Crufts to ensure that we have dogs that cant breathe properly, who are susceptable to hip displacia, who dont get prizes if their muzzles are too long, their ears too small, their colouring not quite right.......... no we dont do freak shows any more...... sorry rant over Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 hmm the kennel club I seem to remember describing them as using biological fascism in an essay once Not trying to offend all you doggy bods out there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel (& Paul) Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 I'M not offended and I'm a doggy bod. I just think that to encourage dogs to be bred to have certain looks is pretty pants really Goodness help us if they ever get hold of human ivf............ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 Its the ones with heads so large that the mothers can't deliver naturally I have the biggest issues with Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel (& Paul) Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 Yup I am SO with you there Shall we rant together Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 Maybe I should send you a copy of that essay I think you would like it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnieP Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 Goodness help us if they ever get hold of human ivf............ That's why OH and I have never had children......couldn't bear to inflict the poor soul on the world: buck teeth, sticky out ears and blind as a bat...and that's just what it'd inherit from OH.....add half of me to the equation...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel (& Paul) Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 And they'd be stunning! I've seen the photos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnieP Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 Awwhhh! Thanks Mel! Want a bit of Millionaire's shortbread? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel (& Paul) Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 Ohh yes PLEASE!!!! It is horrible weather down here - really cold and pouring with rain. Nice cup of tea and millionaires shortbread would go down a treat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnieP Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 oops, sorry, I ate it all..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 I'm guessing the brain is set back so he lost his face basically, yuk nasty. BBx you'll have noticed it was a cockerell not a hen - that's significant... us blokes can get along fine without our brains for many months.. ether that or it's true (as some say) that most of us blokes have their brains eleswhere... (a little lower down) Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellcat Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 ha ha ha! Hee hee hee! I love it when a man admits where his brains are kept. I'm with Louise on the Crufts thing. we have German shorthaired Pointer who is minus tails as it was docked when she was 2 days old. (long before we even thought of having her). She was up for 'rescue' by the breeder as she was below minimum height for "Ooops, word censored!"es in show. How the hell can they tell that at 12 weeks old? she had been sold to a woman who returned her to the breeder for that reason. No wonder the poor thing is so neurotic. Separated from your mummy at 7 weeks, then separated from your new family and returned to the old one, who no longer know you and won't let you sleep in the 'den', then this woman comes along and takes you home with her! Confused/ i should co-co! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel (& Paul) Posted April 12, 2006 Share Posted April 12, 2006 grrrrrrrr that makes me so mad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise Posted April 12, 2006 Share Posted April 12, 2006 I am all for the Heinz variety myself I think friendly and loyal are more important qualities to look for in a dog and as for tail docking Dogs use their tails to communicate so taking it away makes them slightly mute to each other There is a campaign at the mo being run by enlightened vets to appeal to vets that still do this it is only currently allowed for 'welfare' reasons but some unscrupulous ones still do it for 'fashion' and the campaign is trying to make it illegal unless the dog has actually injured the tail Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin B Posted April 12, 2006 Share Posted April 12, 2006 I suspect the picture was a camera trick! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motherhen Posted April 12, 2006 Share Posted April 12, 2006 I know this is going to totally gross you our Martin, but it wasn't a trick and it really did happen. It was the cockerals face that got chopped off and the owners kept the poor thing alive by using a dropper to give it food and water and made lots of money by taking it round freak shows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin B Posted April 12, 2006 Share Posted April 12, 2006 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnieP Posted April 12, 2006 Share Posted April 12, 2006 nope. Afraid not Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel (& Paul) Posted April 12, 2006 Share Posted April 12, 2006 Martin's speechless Nearly as me or Clare being speechless Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin B Posted April 12, 2006 Share Posted April 12, 2006 It is very shocking though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
