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Fake testicles and facials, new ways of pet pampering (no, this is not from the Onion)
AFP/Yahoo ^
| 5/20/12
| Sebastian Smith
Posted on 05/20/2012 4:11:28 AM PDT by markomalley
People and their pets often end up resembling each other, but image-obsessed Americans are taking that age-old relationship a step further, treating their four-legged friends to everything from spa facials to testicle implants.
In a nation of surgically enhanced human breasts, teeth and skin, perhaps it was just a matter of time before the beauty stakes were raised for pooches and cats.
One end of the spectrum features dogs like Hops, a Maltese terrier who recently was given a blueberry facial, followed by a blow dry, and tooth brushing with chicken-flavored paste, at Manhattan's Downtown Doghouse spa.
Groomer Ani Corless described this as the new normal for lapdogs.
"These are man-made breeds and they require maintenance," she said.
Mid-facial, Hops ejected a tiny puddle of vomit, but otherwise did seem to enjoy the attention.
More extreme -- and painful -- makeovers are also gaining ground.
New York Republican lawmaker Nicole Malliotakis says animals are subjected to tattoos, earrings, nose rings, chin rings, tummy tucks, even facelifts.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: moralabsolutes; napl
Another one for the "I thought I'd seen it all" file.
To: markomalley
Helen might still have her front row seat if only she had known.
Naaahhhh
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posted on
05/20/2012 4:15:50 AM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: markomalley
Where I grew up, that's called putting garnish on your food.
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posted on
05/20/2012 4:16:34 AM PDT
by
Zakeet
(Obama loves to wok dogs)
To: Zakeet
We need to put in an order for the GOP, and lets make sure it gets super sized .
To: markomalley
Just another sign that America is slowly becoming a sick demented retarded version of it’s once great people....
A weird place where we murder children by the thousand per day yet treat our dogs as extensions of ourselves....
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posted on
05/20/2012 4:31:48 AM PDT
by
Popman
(America is squandering its wealth on riotous living, war, and welfare.)
To: markomalley
“People and their pets often end up resembling each other”
I'm thinking about getting my wife a pet college cheerleader.
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posted on
05/20/2012 4:38:09 AM PDT
by
yank in the UK
( A liberal mocking Christianity. I asked "why don't you mock Islam?" he replied "Muslims are violent)
To: markomalley
My petz all say “Meh” to this nonsense.
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posted on
05/20/2012 4:47:57 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(I love you for your perspicacity.)
To: Tax-chick
Nudicles for canines!! Cool rock band name..
To: goseminoles
LOL!
We have a neutered male cat who thinks he’s still got ‘em.
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posted on
05/20/2012 6:07:31 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(I love you for your perspicacity.)
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
05/20/2012 7:40:18 AM PDT
by
Morgana
(I only come here to see what happens next. It normally does.)
To: Morgana; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
Are Neuticles available for RINOs?
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posted on
05/20/2012 7:58:34 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Joe 6-pack
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posted on
05/20/2012 8:00:39 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: yank in the UK
That makes a lot of sense...
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posted on
05/20/2012 8:02:45 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 1216 of our ObamaVacation from reality [and what dark chill/is gathering still/before the storm])
To: AnAmericanMother; Titan Magroyne; Badeye; SandRat; arbooz; potlatch; afraidfortherepublic; ...
WOOOF!
The Doggie Ping list is for FReepers who would like to be notified of threads relating to all things canid. If you would like to join the Doggie Ping Pack (or be unleashed from it), FReemail me.
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posted on
05/20/2012 8:44:28 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Tax-chick
Your pets are somewhat sane and sensible.
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posted on
05/20/2012 9:17:08 AM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(I wonder if infants have as much fun in infancy as adults do in adultry?)
To: markomalley
Actually, while the "Neuticles" are purportedly marketed as a replacement for a dog's lost "manhood", they have a real and more sinister reason for existing.
A male dog will be "sent down" i.e. disqualified from the conformation ring if he is a monorchid (having one undescended testicle). Nobody bothers with the cryptorchids (both undescended) because they can't breed - the temperature in the body is too high for sperm production. But an otherwise champion-quality dog with one undescended testicle is a standing temptation to an unscrupulous breeder.
This was demonstrated a couple years ago in a major show when the judge did the usual testicle check and got a funny look on her face -- the dog had THREE testicles. The real one had chosen that moment to descend. IIRC, the dog and the owner were barred from the ring for life.
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posted on
05/20/2012 10:09:12 AM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
(Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGS Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
To: Monkey Face
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posted on
05/20/2012 10:10:56 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(I love you for your perspicacity.)
To: Tax-chick
I tried very hard to not go there....;o]
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posted on
05/20/2012 10:31:27 AM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Stamp out circumlocutorry sesquepedalianisms!)
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