Would You Do This to a Pet? Tiger Dog, Panda Dog and beyond?

Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 12:12 am

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1284646/Meet-Tiger-Dog-Chinese-owners-dye-pets-look-like-wild-animals.html

I'm thinking Spider Man cat but that's not a wild animal. Fortunately, my girlfriend is allergic to furry animals. I think the urge would pass, though.

Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 5:45 am

That's weird lol Laughing

Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 9:45 am

WTF?
It's bad enough we put these poor pets in little costumes and outfits, now we're dying them to look like other animals?
Leave these poor pets ALONE!!

Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 10:07 am

That's funny as hell, but I wonder what, if any, damage the dye does to the pets skin or insides as we all know pets lick themselves.

Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 11:35 am

Actually its not as popular as the media want you to think.....many of the shops that do this have been shut down. Just no business, its a fashion and comes and goes and has been going on for years o nothing new.
My opinion is pick on something ludicrous to distract the world from whats really going on.
Trust the dailymail to pick up on something thats years old. worse than my fav bot the IH random poll demon.

Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 1:04 pm

Can't say I really approve but I can think of much worse things people can do to their animals. Hopefully well groomed at least means healthy too.

Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 10:04 pm

In one sense if I see how the owners of some of these dogs treat their pets then these pets are the lucky ones. They are walked and petted and fussed over which just about any dog loves. Many dogs in China are left to roam free and many are left to fend for themselves and eat whats laying around. Others are left on a chain all their lives as the owners are afraid of them but want a guard dog no different than Spain 30 years ago.

Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 11:42 pm

I suppose you forgot about the dogs in china that are packed so tightly in boxes they can't move, then go essentially insane, right before they are killed for their meat.

Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 11:56 pm

Crooked_Ferret wrote:

I suppose you forgot about the dogs in china that are packed so tightly in boxes they can't move, then go essentially insane, right before they are killed for their meat.

almost the past Ferrit which thankfully is good.
Dog meat has been proven to be healthy but as dogs are more accepted as pets recent studies have shown that the Guangdong area famous for dog meat is rapidly losing acceptance. Most younger Chinese do not eat it anymore. Many of the resturants are closed or it is removed from the menus.
Without sounding cruel though there is little difference with the chicken hatched and bred in a cage for 6 weeks before going to slaughter.

Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 12:03 am

johnno23 wrote:

Without sounding cruel though there is little difference with the chicken hatched and bred in a cage for 6 weeks before going to slaughter.

I suppose I'll accept that statement, only in the case of a chicken you're at least dealing with an animal whose intelligence and emotional states don't seem to vary much between eat,sleep,shit, and reproduce. The reason eggs are so abundant is the creature is actually so ill developed it creates fully developed eggs whether fertilization occurs or not. I'm actually not convinced the creature would still exist if we hadn't started breeding it as a food source. It doesn't exactly seem like something that can deal well with predators.

I have a problem with how is veal raised too, but I'm not about to quit eating rib-eye steaks either, so I guess I have to deal with it on some level.

The primary difference with dogs is that we have bred them for a very long time to be dependent on us and furthermore to be companions to us. I think this puts us in a position where we have to take a bit of additional responsibility when it comes to how they are handled.

Even the common house cat has more independence and natural hunting instinct left in it than the common dog.

edited to correct typo

Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 12:12 am

very valid points C_F.
thankfully the attitude to caring about how we treat animals in China is improving....still a long way to go but as a Child I remember Parka coats being boycotted in Europe when the press published photos of the dogs been hung alive as the dogs then released adrenalin that would make the hair stand up and was of a better quality before they were skinned for their fur.
Humanity has a lot to answer for when we look to how we treat the animal kingdom in general.

Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 1:20 am

johnno23 wrote:

Humanity has a lot to answer for when we look to how we treat the animal kingdom in general.

True the last known thylacine died in captivity because someone couldn't be bothered to feed it or give it minimal shelter.

There are quite a few people that think it may not actually be extinct, and I kind of hope so because there is no doubt we're to blame for the extinction of that one.

Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 1:36 am

Official protection of the species by the Tasmanian government was introduced on 10 July 1936, 59 days before the last known specimen died in captivity.

How is that for an epitaph on mankinds tolerance of the animal kingdom that shares this planets habitat.......C_F I got to go find something fun to read cause the truth is I am angered by our ability to destroy and only offer help when it is too late. I'm not one to go hug a tree but I will not cut one down just because its in my way.