Mutilation of domestic animals

The usual reasons for surgical procedures on pets are to produce a more acceptable appearance or to make it more convenient or safer to have the animal sharing the domestic environment. Such practice includes: docking tails and clipping ears of dogs, removal of claws of cats, clipping wings, claws and beaks of birds and desexing mammals.

1. Torture of animals
2. Prettification of nature
3. Exploitation of animals for amusement

1. Wing clipping of birds
2. Velveting of deer
3. Tail docking of animals
4. Earcropping of animals
5. Desexing of animals
6. Declawing of animals

1. Maltreatment of pet animals
2. Disproportionate allocation of resources to pet animals

1. Muelsing

1. Using cosmetic surgery on pet animals
2. Living with complications of surgery
3. Condemning cosmetic mutilation of pet animals
4. Condemning animal mutilation

1. Unfashionable
2. Rights
3. Mutilation
4. Inhumanity
5. Inconvenience
6. Convenience