Poor little kitty.
Beware sellers on eBay. You may be able to get away with hawking a fake designer bag on the internet, but the minute you start selling pierced kittens, the police will be raiding your house faster than you can say "search warrant."
Tips from concerned buyers on eBay led police to a woman in Ross Township, Pennsylvania, selling kittens whose ears, backs, and necks had been pierced with metal studs and rings.
The woman apparently didn't know what all the fuss was about. She had listed her phone number in her eBay ad. When asked by local SPCA officials why she pierced the kittens, she said she thought it would be "neat."
Lest we need to spell it out for others who don't get it:
If you drive an appliance through the skin of a live animal, especially without anesthesia...you're hurting an animal. It's painful. It's animal cruelty. --SPCA spokesman
The local SPCA had never seen anything like it before. The kittens came in studded, pierced and ringed. One kitten had to have its tail amputated after it had been tied off with a "submission ring."
The raid of the woman's house also turned up a dog whose ears had been pierced. And if that ain't all, she operated a grooming salon from her basement.
The woman will most likely be charged with animal cruelty. The kittens will remain in the care of the SPCA and are not available for adoption. They will be used as evidence in a criminal case against the woman.
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Just when you think you have heard it all about abuse and neglect, you get a story like this.
How stupid! It doesn't even look good, on top of being cruel.
I think it would be "neat" to pull this woman's toenails out with pliers.
What about getting your cat/dog fixed? What about the clipping of birds wings? What about the docking of puppy ears and tails— that is still practiced in this country as standard procedure for show animals—and it's purely cosmetic!
What about sheep on a farm with short tails? Thay were not born that way.
What about inserting an ID chip into a pets’ neck? And, selling live animals on eBay isn’t allowed.
I hope someone decides to investigate her "grooming salon" and see what the heck she was up to while grooming pets (odds are she isn't licensed or registered to run a business out of her home!)
She's certainly an ignorant woman, at that.
Helena, thought I lost you there for a second. Hope you enjoy the new digs. Take care.-----Mic C
Getting Cats/Dogs fixed is under anesthesia and are usually painless...
Clipping bird wing is painless and done for the birds safety (i.e. flying into windows, walls, into a boiling pot on the stove)... NOT EVEN IN THE SAME LEAGUE AS ANIMAL ABUSE.. Docking lambs tails IS NOT cosmetic... It is done for the sanitation of the animal, the flock as a whole and the farm. JEEZ people.. I agree this woman is off her rocker and what she did was cruel and totally inexcusable but not comparable to fixing dogs and cats to prevent over population...
This is just another case of someone being too -stupid- to consider that animals not only feel pain, but can suffer physically and emotionally just like humans. Unfortunatly, there are many more of these stupid people out there that aren't in jail.
Glad to see people are concerned about this. But maybe it's a good time to point out that most of us actually pay people to mutilate animals in far worse ways, every day. Piglets get their ears notched, their tails docked, and their testicles ripped off, all without any anesthetic, just so people can enjoy pork. Chickens get their beaks seared off and male chicks get smothered or ground up in an industrial chipper, just so people can eat eggs.
Perhaps those of us who are concerned with abuse of cats & dogs should consider the systemic abuse of millions of chickens, pigs, cows, etc. They go through far worse trauma than these "goth kittens" would have encountered.
Does the fact that meat, milk, and eggs taste good justify all that? If so, then maybe it is also OK to mutilate those kittens because it would look "neat." Let's say NO to both.
Excellent points, Susan. What this woman did is cruelty on the same level as the cruelty our food system perpetuates. All animals feel pain, all animals suffer when abused.
this is far worse than say.....peircing a two year old childs ears
I am the owner of a piecing salon and although I would never consider piercing and animal for many reasons. people bring in their babie girls to get their ears pierced as soon as they are old enough to leave the house after birth. It does cause them a great deal of pain, they scream bloody hell. I hate doing it again for many reasons but, its a cultural norm especially for hispanics . So, as outraged as some seem that this lady would pierce kittens and dogs every day around the world new born baby girls are subjected to the exact same thing with no anesthetic . Sooooo not saying its right but dont get so out there on this lady just because its unusual to pierce your cat when your neighbors new born girl is probably on the way to have it done right now >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Just sayin...
Granted this woman took it way too far but one question occurs to me. Why is it cruelty to pierce a kittens ears but not to cut off the tail and completely remove part of the ear, which is common practice with many breeds of dog?
Definitely cruel actions taken against these animals, but some of the reactions below are almost as disturbing, albeit in a different manner. This has no equivalence between this and processing livestock for food, or humane necessary alterations to domesticated animals. Comments like these are made out of ignorance. Educate yourself before you decide to stand on a soapbox about something you know nothing about.
Three to one the dam n animal look for it hahahahaha
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