Does Your Pet Need an Eyelift?
From facelifts to nose jobs and even Botox, animal lovers are now spending millions each year enhancing their pets’ droopy eyes and cats’ crooked teeth.
The American Veterinary Medical Association, along with the Humane Society of the United States, are also both against performing surgery for cosmetic reasons alone. (CBS News)
Really? Are we really having this discussion? I mean…really?
I think we should discuss this, this is a major epidemic for animals in our country…
I like your sarcasm…but really, this is a serious reflection of our out-of-touch society.
What?….why? I am appalled by this behavior that is not only inhumane that is just disgusting.
“Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.”
-George Elliot
I think this has now become a problem.
“Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.”
-George Elliot
George Elliot obviously never owned a cat! My Grumpy Cat was continually asking me… why his food wasn’t ready; why wasn’t I feeding him the better-tasting canned food Oh, and the criticisms. That cat would wait by the door for hours to be let in when all he had to do was go around to the back of the house and use his cat door. But letting yourself in isn’t as opulent as having a human at your beck and call.
“The smallest feline is a masterpiece.”
-Leonardo D Vinci
In all seriousness though, is it ethical to do this to animals?
It depends on if their tail is wagging. That’s how animals consent.
Shouldn’t this be justified? What if ugly animals have self-esteem issues that negatively impact their lives?
That would assume they had the mental capacity to do so…which they don’t.
Cosmetically enhanced animals could be happier, therefore making their owners happier and ultimately reduce their owner’s health care problems and expenditures. Public health care should cover animals. Boom. Won’t anybody think of the children???
The funniest thing is:
“The American Veterinary Medical Association, along with the Humane Society of the United States, are also both against performing surgery for cosmetic reasons alone.”
It’s ok for people, but animals, no!
I don’t think they are against it, because they think the actually act of giving botox to a cat is bad (which it might be), it is more about how they are forcing animals into these surgeries…which is definitely inhumane.
what if they want the surgery?
how do we know what an animal wants? they might not even want to be a pet, so we should let them all go. But some of them might want to be a pet and would die in the wild, so we should keep them. how do we know what an animal wants?
Don’t get me wrong, I agree with you that cosmetic surgeries for animals is ridiculous, but I think the discussion opens up a rabbit hole about what is humane and inhumane treatment of animals.
So people are starting to have misgivings about the veterinary ethic? (veterinary ethic – where the master and the vet agree on the treatment the pet will receive – and the pet has no voice).
I think it’s appropriate to worry about this.
But I think there’s an even more appropriate concern that we should be thinking about.
Specifically, I mean the extent to which the veterinary ethic is intruding on decisions about our own, personal medical care. How blithely we just assume those decisions will continue in the future to be made in our best interests – and that we will continue to have a meaningful voice in them.