Tattoos on pets

Can anyone help me!? Does anyone know of or has anyone ever seen a decorative tattoo on a pet. I have heard rumours of dogs with tattoos, I once heard of a dog with a small rose tatooed in it's ear and I have also seen a picture on the internet of a dog being tattooed on it's stomach (a tribal piece) - it looks like a tattooist that is doing it on his own dog. Does anyone know of any simliar stories? I would love to hear from you.

When we got our dog, a pure bred German Sheperd, he went through the procedure of getting a registered serial number from the kennel club, tattooed onto his inner ear--the tattoo artist was employed by the kennel club. I can honestly say, that watching him get that done was the most heart breaking experience ever!! The dog cried like never before and I felt horrible about it =(

Tattoos are for people. Tattooing an animal should get people reported to the SPCA for cruelty.

speaking as someone who has tattoos, a dog, and an open mind. i think you are sick. the thought of inflicting an animal who is supposedly in your care with a tattoo is fucked up. do what you like to yourself, but making yourself unique by putting your animal through pain is sick, you clearly have no idea how to treat an animal and in my opinion you should not be allowed to have an animal with such fucked up ideas. how would you feel if your parents had you tattooed as a baby with some design they thought was cool so they could have a baby with a quirk. get a fucking clue. if anything is going to be tattooed i think it should be you, with big fucking letters across your forehead saying "I am an irresponible prick keep animals away from me."

i have done some decorative tattooing on dogs under the supervision of my friend the vet....all animals are given tranquilizer beforehand .....the coolest one was a bitch dog with biggo titties...on a male albino boxer......and who are you to judge who is sick...how do know that the dogs dont want to be tattooed.....

you say how do you know the dog doesnt want a tattoo? well, how do you know it does??? you have no right making a decision like that! you are not god and you have no right doing that to an animal hat has no say in the situation. you should have an animal for its companionship and love not because you look unique and cool. fucking weirdo

ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS THAT YOU PEOPLE WHO WANT TO MARK YOUR DOGS ARE FUCKING SICK IN YOUR HEADS. I HAVE NUMEROUS TATTOOS AND I AM TOTALLY OPEN TO ANYTHING, BUT WHY DONT YOU GO FUCK YOURSELVES FOR THINKING IN SUCH CRUEL WAYS, AND IF YOU KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT DOGS OR ANIMALS YOU WOULD KNOW THAT THEIR PAIN TOLERANCE AND SKIN MAKEUP IS MUCH DIFFERENT THAN OURS, BUT WHAT IS THE USE TELLING YOU THIS BECAUSE YOU PROBABLY WORK AT A SHITTY JOB WITH NO MONEY OR EDUCATION AND YOU WOULDNT UNDERSTAND. SO I WILL FINISH WITH- FUCK YOU FUCK YOU AND FUCK YOU ANIMAL CRUEL SONS OF BITCHES.

I absolutely cannot believe someone out there is willing to inflict deliberate pain on their own pet, whom they supposedly have at least some kind of affection for, just for their own gain. I absolutely agree with all those who have left comments on how sick and fucked up you really are. Ok fair enough, if the dog is under complete anasthetic and perhaps can't feel a thing, its maybe, and i stress MAYBE, not so bad (although i still think its pretty fucked). but to actually put your pet through absolute agony (as it would be for an animal as their skin isn't as tough as humans) just because you want to have people notice your 'cool' dog/cat whatever, is fucked and if i ever saw anyone or met anyone with the same bizaar ideas i'd make sure to report them and have them banned from owning a pet, and i'd also make sure to meet them in a dark alley one night with many of my like-minded friends - just to make sure i got that idea of deliberately inflicting pain on animals right outta your head. YOU SICK FUCK.

In the society that we spade, neuter and declaw our pets, in the society that we keep our pets inside house over ten hours a day alone ,what is wrong with tatooing pets?!!!!!. By the way what you are asking, sickens me to even think about it.

I'm amazed someone would even think about doing this. That's all I will comment on it. Regarding todays society: My dogs have a doggie door and have full movement inside and out all day while I'm at work. Society has somehow decided it's ok for people to lock their pets outside all day. Now that's more fucked up than locking them inside, IMO. If you aren't going to open your home to your pet don't fucking get one.

sounds alright to me, i got a 9 month old pittbull who has a small tattoo of a eightball on his hind leg and i can honestly say that i dont think he has a problem with it. when he was a small puppy he loved going to my friends house who happened to do tattoos there, he loved the sound of the gun as soon as it started he got all excited after having eightball for 6 months i decided to get some work done myself and had a huge tattoo on my lower back done and eightball was right by my side the entire time licking my hand meaning i had to be strong and not let it get to me and i got through it by him being there. a week later it was time to get him fixed at the vet i asked about tattooing dogs and the vet agreed no long term damage can be done with the right precaution (excactly like humans) agreed to meet me at the tattoo parler with antibiotics, and anasthetic and there i stood next to the chair while he jumped up ready to get his little bit of inviduality done after the anasthetic kicked in i held his poor the same way he did for me and after he woke up i have never seen something so happy he licked it a couple times and jumped from the chair now he is 9 months old and he loves the attention

I think that getting a tatt on a pet, especially one that is "put under" is no more wrong than keeping pets locked up in houses or cages or tied up outside. To some of you that "judge" others for how they care for their animals based off of this question I can only say that a pet owner who is willing to spend $100+ for a small tattoo on their pet probably loves it and cares for it better than most. I have tatts, and pets and an open mind and I don't see a problem with it. Who am I to tell someone how to "raise their children". The same argument can be made about parents who pierce their child's ears....to me that is just as cruel, if not moreso. For centuries livestock has been marked for ownership, it is even encouraged......how do you bleeding hearts feel about that?? Everyone is different, you should not judge anyone's ability to take care of their pets. You probably feed your pet overprocessed food that's chemical make-up is dangerous to it's health in the long run, or you don't exercise your pets as much as prescribed by vets, maybe you should worry about yourself and your own pets.

I think if anyone does that to any animal it is wrong. I have seen it and really don't like it. Maybe we should go visit theese people when they are old and tattoo Dicks and pussys on there faces. I think anyone that does bad stuff like this should have a tattoo on there face that says that they are fucked up. I put people like this in the same group as sex offenders. Have a good day.:)

in regards to tattooing a animial this has been going on for decades if not longer i totally agree with a marking or identifying tattoo as a ownership proof but not to tattoo just for fun as one posted here they have there dog tattooed for identification purpose only and yes the animal should be sedated but as far as just for fun lets find something better to do with our stupidty in the 70s there was a artist that was tattoing pigs seeing as how pig skin is very close to human skin some of these were very tastefully done but now with the technology we have today i would think that placing a tracking chip in a animal would be much easier less traumatic for the animal and all around a better purposefull meaning of keeping track of the animal incase of a fear flight situation.or even stealing the animal i have 3 dogs have never even thought of tattooing them but have thought of the chip.as i said to tattoo a animal for just the pleasure of fun or you think this is just kick ass then perhaps someone should forcibly tattoo you some may see tattooing a animal wrong as has been stated here but if you have lets say for example a 25 thousand dollar horse you want to be able to identifiy that animal beyond doubt thus a name or number tattooed on that animal

if i saw you walking your dog and it had a tattoo id punch you in the fucking mouth

Looks like PETA has been posting to this site. Animals have been tattooed and branded for a long time. Nothing new or sick about it.

of course dogs dont want to be tattoed you idiot.I cant believe some people are so thick one of the replies said how do you know dogs dont want a tattoo they dont even know what a tattoo is so it would only be for your benefit and that is sick infact that is the most stupid thing i ever heard in my life for fuck sake honestly i cant believe there is people out there like you how could you put a helpless animal in so much pain that it has been known that dogs pass out even die having a tattoo just for a little picture for your benefit seriously you are so fucked up in the head i suggest you seek medical help asap

actually g is very much loved and walked daily and fed the appropriate food thankyou and i could never ever put my dog in pain for a picture on a dog for goodness sake you where obviously born backward

I don't think getting a tattoo on a pet is a good idea. But, on the other hand I have always thought my dog "Snickers" (a weener dog) would look really cute with a tinny captive bead on her left ear. I would never do it, but I thought it would be cute.

I see nothing wrong with getting your pet tattooed. In fact my 2 cats have tattoos, and my dog and horse also have a tattoo. I have tattooed all my animals including myself with a small heart. I don’t make my animals do something that I won’t do myself. I do agree that it would be inhumane to cover that animal’s body it tattoos. To the comment posted by: A tattooed animal lover "Tattooing an animal should get people reported to the SPCA for cruelty," you get back to us and let us know what all those angry farmers thing about being reported to the SPCA for branding livestock :)...To the comment posted by: abyss "you are not god and you have no right doing that to an animal hat has no say in the situation." You are right about one thing, I am not god, but I do have a say in what is and isn't done to my animal. People fix, declaw, crop, dock, dewclaw, ect. everyday. So what you are saying is because my animal can’t say yes/no to something that I shouldn’t get it fixed, ect. unless it asks? To the comment posed by: musiqmaker225 "I HAVE NUMEROUS TATTOOS AND I AM TOTALLY OPEN TO ANYTHING" If you are totally open to anything, then why aren’t you opened to getting your animal tattooed? "BUT WHAT IS THE USE TELLING YOU THIS BECAUSE YOU PROBABLY WORK AT A SHITTY JOB WITH NO MONEY OR EDUCATION AND YOU WOULDNT UNDERSTAND" And you are trying to say you have a good job, money, and an education? With comments like this "SO I WILL FINISH WITH- FUCK YOU FUCK YOU AND FUCK YOU ANIMAL CRUEL SONS OF BITCHES," that doesn’t sound like a well educated person to me. To the comment posed by: Dragonrose. You should have just stopped typing after the first sentence, because the rest of it isn’t even related to the topic. To the comment posted by: boston eric "if i saw you walking your dog and it had a tattoo id punch you in the fucking mouth" So does this mean if a child was walking a dog down the street and the dog had a tattoo on it you would hit the child? And you people are calling Kate nuts for BRING UP the subject of dog tattooing (yes, if those of you out there knew how to read you would have seen that Kate never said anything about getting a pet tattooed, all we wanted to know were stories about dogs getting tattoos), if anything I would be watching out for this guy. People I think we have greater issues to worry about, like someone beating there pet senseless that someone PAYING to put a tattoo on their pet.

true people have been tattooing, branding, clipping ears, docking tails, debarking, and altering animals in other ways for years, and pretty much all of these are legal (done or overseen by a vet) and accepted by society. But animals have no understanding of the human world and anything that causes pain and injury to an animal is a tramatic experiance, of course your dog will still be happy and love you, but thats just thier nature, you could kick your dog in the head and he would still love you. By the way there are tribes in the world that have been cutting the clitorus off thier daughters to dicourge them from having sex with anybody but thier husband, and they've been doing it for years, no biggie eh.

anyone who is posting about how that is so sick should just spot eating any meat, since all of those animals were on a farm and branded in some way. While it may be painful, and you may not like it, as i don't see a point (the animal won't enjoy it afterward, so why do it?), so is branding and all of that stuff. So, stop supporting that, or stop getting your pants all in a bunch over it. -Ducky

Also, about the tribes comment (which is not really comparable to this), that is a lifestyle, not an owner with a pet. People have the responsibility to take care of their pets. Without their owners, they wouldn't make it. AND, people have the right to, if legal, get their pets tattooed. You can't control that. I don't really hold most of these posts in high reguards anyway, concidering they are all so childish they can't be any good i still say you all go vegitarian -Ducky

I AM a vegetarian....but I still Love the taste of P*&$#Y!!!...TAz

hey Ducky, I am vegetarian.. go figure. tribal=lifestyle yes, living with pets=lifestyle also yes that was written to say, just because it's legal and people have been doing it for years doesn't make mean that it's not cruel. your right if tattooing your pet is legal than I can't stop it. but I still think that any person with any kind of empathy towards animals would never even consider altering thier pet for cosmetic reasons.

LMAO there are only 3 letters between the P and the Y hun

Taz. Did you say vagitarian?

and if your wondering where colonbus is, it's due north of uranus

I noticed you didn't care to respond to the post about parents getting their children's ears pierced. What if they don't want earings? of what about the show dogs? Do you think they want to be primped and pampered so they have to run around and live a life of being judged? Or what about race horses, worked their whole life to be some person's ploy at getting money? or what about........ the list goes on and on. people do a lot worse to their animals than tattoo them, and people don't need to go crazy when it's brought up.

3 letters between the p and the y? Let me check....NOPE!!! 4 letters just like I said!!....Does someone need a dictionary?..TAz

Well I do think that exploiting animals is a crying shame true the list goes on and on and on, sometimes it seems to me that humans have a pretty good track record for useing and disposing, rather than nurtureing and embracing. I personally would like to see the whole culture change. And as for my opinion on peircing a childs ears, well I think the child should be old enough at least to ask for peirced ears, as for my own children I would have to make a judgement call on wether I think they could take care of the piercing (not smearing chocolate in it) or not. and don't worry I'm not going crazy I'm just contributing to an online forum peace

THIS IS SICK. IT;S NOT ABOUT WAT THE DOG WANTS OR DOESNT WAT... THE IDEA IS JUST WRONG, AN ANIMAL CANT EXPRESS WAT IT WANTS SO HOW DA FUCK U GONNA KNOW IF IT HAS A PROBLEM OR NOT! TATTS R FOR PPL THEY WERE CREATED FOR PPL... NOT ANIMALS... ESPECIALLY SUMBODY'S PETS, I WORK WITH ANIMALS N MOST OF THE PPL KNOW DA MAKES A DOG HAPPY IS TO BE DA FUCK ALONE WHENEVER HE OR SHE WANTS GET FOOD PLAY N SLEEP! NO FUCKIN DOG LIKE TATTS, IT'S NOT DA DOG IS GONNA FEEL COOL! THIS IS A DUMB SUBJECT TO ARGUE ABOUT, JUST PISSIN ME OFF DA THERE R PPL WHO R IGNORANT

just when i thought things couldn't get any stupider...

I think you should let your dog tell you what he wants tattooed on himself and then go get it for him................nevermind, he's to busy licking his dick right now, I guess I'll ask him tommorow!

whoever post on here that tattooing there pets is wrong and has some lame ass excuse should post there name and addy up to if there is nothing wrong with it. thats all i got to say im not gonna make any threats.

sorry i meant people that think it isn't wrong to tattoo animals.

The bottom line is the ONLY reason to tattoo a pet if for the sick, twisted, masochistic pleasure of the owner or the person engaging in the tattoo procedure. Someone said that "oh well pets get neutered every day" Yeah and that to me is unnatural also. "animals get branded" Yeah before they are gutted and skinned . These are poor arguements people. I tell you what if youre dog lies there on his/her own and allows you to give them the tatt then go for it...fuck, give em a full body if it makes you feel better. But if the y don't lie there and allow it then that means it is unwanted and should not under any circumstances be done........ I mean come on what if the dogs Jewish

damn then my pit bull hitler would kill it LOL but for real i do have a pit bull named hitler cus he has a lil black mark under his nose. but he ain't tattoed he has the lo jak chip installed.

lol.......you should teach him to salute

WHAT???? You CIRCUMCIZED your DOG???

someone commented that animals had been branded/tattooed for years. i dont personally condone that either but it is a way of marking cattle and livestock or to idenitfy a lost pet is a bit easier to take than getting an 8 ball on a dogs leg. although now we no longer have to tattoo pets for identification there are microchips. as far a cattle most consider them food and not pets/compainions so there is a bit of a differnce for most people (i personally dont eat meat and think branding is cruel). marking a pet with a tattoo so you can look at it and think its cool is crazy to say the least. animals dont give a shit what they look like and to say that a pet *might* like a tattoo is absurd. animals (excluding humans) avoid pain. since animals are unable to communicate on our terms we need to think like them not how we want to think they are. tattoos are a personal choice, made for personal reasons. a person who tattoos his/her pet is doing it for them and not their pet. i like the statement that one of the posters made about punching the guy in the mouth if he saw him walking his tattooed dog. i second that.

What about allowing your dog to tattoo you? I've been thinking about it lately. We just have to work out a solution to him not having opposable thumbs, and we're good to go. All the other dogs keep telling him he's a pretty good drawer, and should get a kit. Can anyone tell him how to adjust the spring tension on a machine??? What ink is best?? And before anyone accuses him of being a scratcher, he has completed a cross contamination course, and was vaccinated for rabies.

keepinitreal my pit bull wants to make an appointment with your dog for for an armband of bones. [email removed] are you crazy?????? we didn't climb to the top of the food chain to eat tofu. what the hell do you have aginst meat ??? a cow would eat you in a second if givin a chance to......

OK guys. I understand why sometimes an animal may have to be marked for security purposes. I have had horses for many years and all have been branded. HOWEVER, I only did this as a security measure, as horse theft is common in my area and I felt completely evil for putting an animal through that sort of pain, but in my eyes it was necessary. Now, anyone who thinks it is ok to put a tattoo on a pet for any other reason rather than security, in my opinion needs some help. Animals have no say in the matter, if its for security fine, but if its because you think it would looik "cool" all I can say is that you must be incredibly selfish and heartless. Seeing the pain my animals went through getting marked cut me to the core - and for those people who say they think its ok because animals have been branded and tagged for years, that is for practical reasons, not for your own sick gratification because you think it makes you look "individual" when all it does is make you look like a complete prick.

Ok this is what happened ...me and my dog Herpes ( call him that because of these weird sores he gets on his lips) anyway me and hERPES got all hopped up one night last week with this Arab named Booli Bob...we were drinkin some kinda likker distilled from either goat milk or camel piss ( its still kinda fuzzy) and about a gallon and a half of Tazblasters , which if any of you are familliar with you will know we should probably be dead by now..well after me and the arab got into a knuckle fight ( of which neither of us won cause of not bein able to aim real good cause of..you guessed it..the damn Tazblasters and camel piss..diuring which Herpes evidently said "fuck you ya ignorant mooks" and proceeded to run away. When the Tazettes gently woke me the next day by pourin a half a bottle of 7 up mixed with Pop Rocks up my nose #1 told me that herpes had been arrested, tried and convicted by the powers that be and was currently incarcerated in doggy prison Super Max(the pound) and if we didn't go pay his fine for drunk and disorderly they were gonna execute him ( bein afraid the other mutts would catch those nasty sores he seems so proud of. Well me and #2 went to get him and drug the smelly fucker home and was givin him a bath in the neighbors pool ( thats another story altogether)when #3 started jumpin up and down and pointin and GODDAMN!! That bastard had stole my booze money and got hisself a tattoo of a heart with the name FI FI in it!! I didn't care about the tat or the money but the sumbitch got tattooed at the scratcher shop up the street!! Moral is...Keep yer booze money hid where yer dog can't find it!!!..TAz

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now, i don't necessarily go either way on this topic, but i think alot of people need to think about stuff before they go running their mouth and saying they are going to punch people and throwing out "FUCK YOU"'s left and right... people are right, dogs and other animals have been tattooed for years and years. granted usually only for identification purposes, but it has happened. there is no denying that. someone up above pointed out that dogs pain tolerance is different than a humans, and they are absolutely right. they have a much higher tolerance to pain, which allows them to run through pricker bushes and all that without hardly feeling a thing. i know if i went running through a pricker bush i probably would be in some degree of pain, but i still sat fine through having my ribs tattooed for 4 hours. to the people that think animal "abuse" in any form is wrong - do you spay, neuter or de-claw your animals? all of these could be deemed completely inhumane, as you're not only physically abusing your animal, but also mentally abusing it as you are taking away it's rights to live a natural life. imagine if when you were born someone cut off your balls or removed your ovaries, you'd probably be a little messed up in the head, no? also, all you people that think animal abuse is so wrong, do you still drink your milk or eat your steaks from farms that are known to abuse their animals with not only physical abuse but chemical injection? take a look at some of those animals and then tell me that putting a nice looking tattoo on my dog is worth punching me in the mouth. my last point i guess would be someone argued that how do you know your dog wants to have a tattoo? well, my question to you is how do you know those dogs that people cut their hair into rediculous shapes want that done? if i were a dog and my owner did that to me, and i knew what was going on (assuming dogs have a sense of individuality) i would bite them on the arm. again, i could go either way on this argument, i just think people should think about things and punch people in the mouth for what's really worth punching someone in the mouth.

Can't we all just GET ALONG?!!!! *sniffle* *sniffle*

Brendon you bring up some really good points especially about people who argue against animal cruelty but love them steaks and milk and eggs that come from irresponsible farms. I just wanted to discuss about the spaying and neutering. I think it is way unnatural but it does prevent a lot of unwanted animals that would in other case be euthanized, so there is positive reason for it. and if I were a dog with a stupid haircut I would also bite my owner for making me look like weeny. I just think that cosmetic alterations on an animal are unnecessary and a little bit cruel.

I agree with ya Brendan and right now I am gonna go punch herpes right in the fuckin mouth and that goddamn Arab if I ever see him again!!...TAz

I dunno I think like so many controversial socio-political issues, that it is a two edged sword...like in the case of neutering/spaying....maybe it is somewhat cruel but then again if its not done who will care for all the unwanted animals?...You brendan? How many animals have You personally taken in? Its kinda like the antiabortionist...if the girl carries the child til birth instead of aborting, are You gonna raise it??...I see so many people give mouth service to these oh so lofty ideals but when it comes down to it all they want to do is talk.....lets see some action people ...sign carryin never did anything for anyone...I am not an advocate of either abortion or pet sterilizing I am simply playing the devils advocate here...TAz

in regards to brendan...I personally am full fledged vegan my pets arent neutered or spayed and i must disagree that a dogs pain tolerance is higher than a humans.. If i as much as step on my dogs paw by accident forget about it AAAAAAAAAArr.. I hate to repeat it but the only reason to tattoo an animal is for the sick dimented pleasure of the owner or the tattoo specialist. I don't even buy the whole security reason to tatt up a pet either. Get a dam fence. And it might be possible for a dog to "run" through a pricker bush without feeling anything it all depends on what the dog is running for or from. Mind over matter type of situation . If i was just casually walking through a pricker bush then yeah it would hurt like a sonumabitch but if i was running from a maniac with a chainsaw or one of taz's tazzettes after 7 tazblasters then i probably wouldn't feel anything til after the fact. ...bye the way good drink there taz o buddy...thanks for the recipe I'm on my second as we speak or type or whatever the hell you call this.........

i know i'm still a newb on this board but i don't give a shit if you've been emailing me or not when i'm about to say the following... i SO AGREE with the guy who said Tattoos are for ppl not for animals!!! I am a HUGE animal lover, especially of dogs... I work at a shelter where i rehabilitate abused dogs, bite cases, court case dogs, etc... (if you've watched Animal Precinct on Animal Channel... this is what i do... for free!!)... You can tattoo a person, a person has a brain, a person can talk and say stop if they need too... A dog has all these things too, and they talk in their own language, barking, whimpering, crying, etc... a dog also has FUR!! which humans do not... if God intended for animals to be naked like us humans (meaning skin wise) and he wanted them to be tattooed then he would have created them as such... Ppl who tattoo their animals make me fucking sick!! I've seen dogs with tattooed stomachs, it don't look pretty.... all that photo does is make me think even more that the owner is a pretty fucked up human being to that..... the only pic i ever saw this in was Savage magazine when Scarification and Branding were just coming out... Thank god no one was branding or scarring their dogs!! geezus though i'm sure someone will think to do it... Tatting up your animal to me is just plain wrong, it's wrong! What did you yourself run out of skin on your body to tat up so now you got to tat up a poor, defenseless, innocent animal? Is this how you get your high, your kicks now? It's not about the pain, i know... what is it about? It's not enough for you to mutilate yourself, but now you gotta go and torture a sweet, innocent animal that never did nothing wrong to no one or you... you gotta go mutilate that animal... that to me IS animal abuse right there... and i do think they should make a law against it and have ppl prosecuted it for it... it's animal cruelty to me... it's wrong, it's pushing the envelope to far to me in tattooing... If you ever do find an artist that does tat your animal up, i hope you both burn in hell for eternity for it... don't even begin to misjudge me... i'm no bible loving christian... i'm catholic yeh, but i ain't a clean canvas... i've got a fair share load of tats on my body... so don't think i'm a "oh she don't understand" type of person... or a "oh she works at a shelter, so she would say that..." type of person... i'm not biased at all... i'm just simply telling you my opinion and what is... we're all entitled to an opinion remember... to tat and mutilate an animal is just fuckin wrong... some ppl believe to tat/mutilate a human body is wrong too, but there are reasons why ppl have tattoos and they can talk about them... a dog can't talk to another dog or animal or person about, "hey look what my owner just put on me, isn't it sweet? yeh, i'm gonna be raking in the ladies now... hehe" think fuckin twice if you're serious about doing this... use your fuckin brain... if you got one...

I dont even like dogs!! but that is so mean!!!! I thot pets were ment to be like ur babies!!! i sure as hell wouldnt get a baby tattood!!! R u jus taking the piss or are u bein serious!!!!!!!! taZ 5

I know that animals are regularly tattooed for identification purposes and, while I'm quite certain that they don't like it when it's happening to them, they probably don't retain as much of the memory as we think they would (people tend to think of animals in human terms and therefore try to impose human characteristics on them to explain their behavior). That being said there are far less painful ways to identify an animal that may or may not be cost prohibitive in the case of breeders or farmers. For individual pets it is abosultely unnecessary. I know that people inflict pain on their pets; they have them spayed or neutered, they have them declawed, they have micrchips implanted under their skin. All of these things have PURPOSES. They make having a pet much easier and, in some cases they are a necessity for having a pet. Decorative tattoos are for people, animals cannot appreciate artwork, they do not have the mental capacity. I have always had pets and currently have two dogs that watch my house while I'm at work. To suggest that leaving them at home, in an environment they feel safe and secure in, is more cruel than inflicting unnecessary physical pain on them and risking their lives with the anaesthetic (and YES, it is a VERY REAL RISK that they can die from it) is absurd! Pets are living creatures entursted to our care and as such we owe them a certain amout of responsibility to properly care for them and protect them, not decorate them. If you want to decorate something go bake a fuckin' cake!

Thankyou TAz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I get the same shit for de-clawing my cats........................from the same people who don't bat an eye at cutting off their balls!!!!! Adopting an animal is not cheap in this state, and none of the associated bullshit is free. If I'm going to provide a home for an otherwise euthanized animal (which I never will again), then I just guess it's just going to have to undergo some modifications to keep my home intact. In the meantime, if you object, and you're a parent who's had their baby boy circumcised, then you're a fucking hypocrit!! That kid didn't have a say any more than an animal that's being tattooed, spayed, neutered, or declawed. TCE

Just dont tell that noclawed bastard where yer booze money is!!

These cats take turns plopping their asses down on the keyboard whenever I'm on line. Even when they lay in my lap, it's hard................er, difficult, to type. All other things being equal, cats are still the SEXIER animal!!!!!! TCE

I have a little purebred dachshund (which I found) wandering in the middle of the street while walking my other dog. He had no collar, was emaciated, and dehydrated. I have had him about year. Put an ad in the paper... no response, so that's why I kept him (plus he is prescious). Well today, I was cuddling on the couch with him and I noticed he has a perfectly round tattoo of a circle under his left ear! I am baffled as to why someone would do that to a dog for "identification purposes" and then not even look in the paper to see if their lost dog was found. What the hell is that about? Anyway, my point is... he is scared to death of men... he loses bowel control if he gets near a man and so I know he was probably abused. How do we know he wasn't tattooed by some sadistic weirdo who just wanted to torture him? By the way, my father is a veterinarian and refuses the practice of tattooing pets. The reason we get our pets spayed and neutered is generally to control the animal population. Let's face it, male dogs jump fences and look for females in heat. Leaving someone with pets they did not want. Then what do they do? Instead of dropping the 200 (or less) dollars to get the animal fixed, they drop the puppies off in front of my father's clinic so he has to find homes for animals that are not his responsibility. It is responsible to spay and neuter your animals. They don't remember it and are often healthier afterwards. Actually, unless you intend to breed a female animal, letting them go in and out of heat is actually MORE cruel than removing their reproductive organs. This whole agrument about the tattoos is silly. There are microchips (virtually painless)... if you have an argument about microchips being "unnecessary pain" then why don't you just not vaccinate them either cuz the pain is about equal. Then they can get distemper and parvo and die! How about that? There is no reason to tattoo your animals, even for ID now that there are microchips. So everyone just shut up,

Oh and I forgot to mention another thing about tattooing animals... Most tattooed animals are pure-bred. Therefore, people steal them. Most dogs are tattooed on the inside of their ears. And then, as a result the dog-napper will sometimes lop of the part of the ear that is tattooed in order to eliminate identification. So, yeah. Microchip your pets instead for the love of god. I am not saying this will prevent them from being stolen, but at least they won't be mutilated without anesthesia. :) Good day.

Clash...Thanks so much for your post!!...I for one agree totally with pretty much all that you said.I think tattooing animals is well...dumb!! When for a few bucks you can get them "chipped" in a relatively painless proceedure...I'm a pet lover and see no reson to tattoo any animal.

That's it. I'm totally getting a tribal backpiece done on the cat...

I know that I'm pulling up an old topic but I just have to post. I am a huge animal right advocate and volunteer with welfare groups all the time. I don't agree with tattooing an animal just for fun. But many AKC breeders do it for identification still. Also many shelters & rescue groups that help place homeless dogs & cats have their animals tattooed when they are spayed or neutered so that if ever that animal makes it back to a shelter they know the animal has already been fixed. One of my dogs as a little bone by what would be his boner if he had some nuts! I wouldn't get it done just because but I'm not against why the shelters are doing it and he's a shelter dog. While I have a moment. I want to give a little speel on animals. There are millions of homeless animals with over 25% being purebred animals. Please adopt or at very least spay or neuter your pet so you don't add to the problem.

You said-"Animals have been tattooed and branded for a long time. Nothing new or sick about it. " A lot of cruel and inhumane behavior has been exhibited for a long time, but that does not make the behavior morally correct. Should one tattoo their childen without their consent ? Or do you simply believe it is okay to tattoo a pet because you CAN by mere coercion and force ?

I would not tattoo my pet, but I also would not punch another human being, even if I thought his actions were disgraceful. Cruelty towards our own species is still cruelty. "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." --Mahatma Gandhi

I bought our Boston terrier about 10 years ago, It has some funky skin problem where it cant grow any hair & I wanted to Tattoo him up with designs for our shop. But my wife wouldn’t hear of it, I think it would have been a cool pet instead of this ugly hairless monster that snores as loud as a fat man. After reading this thread I feel like stabbing him in the back with a 5 tube just to laugh, Maybe I`ll post you a pic ?

Here's an article on the subject of pierced and tattooed pets: www.digandscratch.com/issue1/stories/tattoos.html

Here's an article on the subject of pierced and tattooed pets: www.digandscratch.com/issue1/stories/tattoos.html

Animals can't say NO

I think this is cruel would you like to be tattooed without a choice. They are born without tattoos and they should be able to live like that. It discusts me to think that people will put there dog on a drug to do this to them. Why cant you buy it a pretty jumper or collar don't scar the dog for life..

I think this is cruel would you like to be tattooed without a choice. They are born without tattoos and they should be able to live like that. It discusts me to think that people will put there dog on a drug to do this to them. Why cant you buy it a pretty jumper or collar don't scar the dog for life..

I was with you up until you said buy the dog a pretty jumper lol I don't like dog clothing either . But I hear ya.

I think you should let the dog do a tattoo on you, and it should say, "My owner is an asshole!"

KAIN!! I just ingored this entire lame-ass thread but my eye was caught by the presence of a fellow OAKLANDER!!!! represent!!!

YO WO, OAKTOWN BABY!!!

i got a real kool tattoo of ma dog , i loved it ,

I rescued my dog from the pound after a car hit her. She's fine now but has a scar or bald spot down her neck to her belly. I want to start with a temp tatoo to see how it'll work. Later I may do the real thing. She runs through stickers and cactus all day of her own volition and dosent complain. If she expressed pain at the tatoo parlor I woul obviovsly stop, but I doubt that will be a problem. Dogs have a tremendous threshold for pain. And if any of you pinkos that think your animal lovers have any objection, I have a one eyed python here you could kiss. What do you think my dog would do to you when you walk up to me in the park and "punch me in the mouth"?

hahahahahaha you lot are fuckin mental...i've only checked out this site for a couple of days and it's cracking me up....queen of spades...birds with crap tats...birds applying for modeling jobs from 2003...people threatening to kill people over maori art...and now tattooing fucking dogs hahahaha...this is brilliant..this is better than tv...better than going to the pub...better than shagging my bird...well obviously not really...but it is fucking good...some people on here really need to get a grasp of irony and sarcasm tho...i think acyually someone should make a movie about this site...kevin smith stylie..a la clerks...would be wicked mate.... fucking class...

This brings up the question from another thread, should your pet have to tip, and how much? Or can it just lick the peanut butter off your nads? I prefer the latter.

Whitey although I agree with some of your crap let me set one thing straight...the reqest for models post WAS first posted in 2003 however it is still a valid post and the man who posted it is a legitimate businessman who operates a high class business..if you actually read through the posts you will find his website and can see the upscale work he does with tattooed ladies. Don't be so quick to judge man!

Tim...you are right and i apologise for judging...it was just getting to me how people speak to each other on here over what seems like quite trivial shit....i mean c'mon tattooing fucking dogs.... don't get me wrong there are some very interseting threads on here writen by some interesting and inteligent people...but some of the people are morons who reckon they're hard because they have tattoo's....i don't know what it like in the states but in the uk there is still some stigma from people who think people with tats are thugs and/or morons....and dickheads threatening people on here is not helping that situation....granted it was only one dickehead....anyway i suppose this is another topic and maybe i'll post it as a new thread!!!! oh and i will definatly check out the web site of tattoo'd ladies...yahoo...oh how i love them tattoo'd ladies.....cheers!!!!

I just spent the last 15 minutes reading this. It’s fucking hilarious. I want to see the dog on Family Guy get Tattooed. Maybe he could tell us what the fuck the animals think about it.

"Hi, can I help you?" "Woof...Woof..." "Iam sorry, we dont do dogs here." "GRRRRRRR!"

For all of you that think tattooing YOUR dog is wrong FUCK YOU!!!!!!! We tattoo our pets cause we dont want no dumb fuck like you taking them from us after we spend all money to get them. If we didnt love them we wouldnt care what happend to them!!!! We wouldnt care if someone took off with them. So we put tattoos on them so we can prove that the are ours. You people are the sick fucks!!!!!!!!! And shit if we paid all the money for them we can do whatever the fuck we want to with them after all WE PAID NOT YOU!!!!!

Mr fuck off....You should really learn to read, no one is sayin that its wrong to tattoo your pet for identification purposes with like your social security # or whatever, the point of this post was DECORATIVE tattoos on pets.

I have two parrots with full sleeves.

My Labrador has a Prince Albert

One word - CRUEL. The dog doesn't want it. Get your own tattoo. Look at it from the dogs point of view... this thing twice your size comes at you with a noisy object, you can't understand what this thing is saying or doing all you know is it hurts ... get it?

tattooing a pet is disgusting, unless done by the likes of the kennel club as an ID! anyone who would even think of doing anything otherwise should be arrested.. and prob would be if caught!

Tattooing pets even for identification is archaic and unnecessary, a vet will implant an id chip cheap and its basically painless.

Ya know...once my dog was on the couch lickin his balls.It looked pretty good so I thought I'd try it for myself.The bastard bit me!

You fuckos are retarded. If a dog is tattooed for identification purposes, it's perfectly legal, humane, and probably the best step you can take to getting a lost or stolen dog home. I'm positive that if you gave the dog a choice of 5-10 minutes of pain vs. getting hit by a car or living with a dognapper they would gladly get the tattoo. Collars come off, microchips are useless unless someone is trying to find you, and animal control will put a loose pitbull to sleep quicker than shit. A visible tattoo with the dog's name and a permanent phone number on the inside thigh will ensure that people know this is someone's dog. If you spend thousands of dollars on a dog then you know there are a lot of people that can't afford it and would steal it in a heartbeat. What do you think would happen to a Ferrari with no plates, no V.I.N., and the keys in it? All of you assholes talking about animal cruelty probably get your dogs nuts cut off and feed them Wal-Mart dog food. Peasants.

Didn't Lyle Tuttle tattoo his dog? I've seen numerous pictures of him with what looks like some kind of beagle mix that has a tattoo of a heart with a banner and a name ( I think it says "Dad") on it's stomach. I don't wanna get into this argument really. I do know when I build up machines at home, my dogs hate it when I run them. I have 2 boxers and they spin in circles barking and all that. Back to the subject, has anyone else seen these pictures of Tuttle's dog?

iT DOES SOUND QUITE SICK AND CRUEL TO TATTOO A DOG...BUT I HAVE TWO PITBULLS AND ONE OF THEM DIED...THEY WERE THE BEST OF FRIENDS...THEIR FRIENDSHIP WAS SOMETHING UNLIKE ANY HUMAN BOND I HAD EVER SEEN...i WAS ACTUALLY THINKNG ABOUT HAVING A MEMORIAL TATTOO DONE ON MY SURIVIVING PITBULL FOR THE DECEASED DOG...iF HE INDERSTOOD I THINK HE WOULD BE GAME TO HAVE SOMETHING TO REPRESENT HIS FRIEND....IT MIGHT SOUND SICK AND CHILDISH...I JUST THOUGHT IT WAS A NEAT IDEA....IF YOU TATTOO A DOG WITHOUT PUTTING HIM UNDER OR SOMETHING YOU ARE A SICK FUCKING PERSON....BUT TATTOOING A DOG IS NO WORSE THE CUTTING ITS EARS OR TAIL...EXPECIALLY IF THE DOG IS NOT AWAKE OR AWARE...JUST MY OPINION

Help! My gold hampster is acting strange, not moving or eating much. I just gave it a full Hokusai wave body suit with a nice carp on its belly yesterday after iI finally got it shaved (that was the tough part!), but now it seems really lethargic. I really thought she loved getting the work done. She didn't even squeek or move at all for three hours while I was working. But now she just lays there and shivers. Is this normal? Does anyone have experience with this sort of behavior? Should I wait another day, or should I call the vet? I wouldn't be so upset if Goldie was just sleeping and twitching all the time, but she seems to be leaking lots of clear liquid too. Is this just a normal part of the healing process?!

Honestly, sometimes tattoos on pets are a good idea! When pets are stolen - or run away - sometimes (very frequently, actually) you never find them again because they end up with what is called a "Buncher". A person (or shelter) who sells their animals to labs as experimentation animals. ALL countty shelters are REQUIRED to allow labs to take the animals they do not adopt out prior to euthanasia. A simple tattoo on the left or right inner thigh of your pet can 100% prevent this from ever happening to your pet. It marks it LEGALLY as a pet. The dogs registration #, AVID chip # or your drivers license number are good ideas of what the tattoo should be. But this is done by a tattooist WHILE THE PET IN UNDER ANESTESIA. I worked as a vet tech for 2/years and we did perform this on one pet. It was 100% unconscious. That is the only way it is not cruel. Just some food for thought.

Not to mention that cropping ears and docking tails is MUCH more painful - and common. Dogs, coming out of anestesia from getting a tattoo experience a minimal amount of pain (especially if you are a good owner and get pain meds), but a puppy coming out of anestesia from experiencing an ear cropping procedure SCREAMS FOR HOURS. We are trained to hold them down (this is even with the best pains meds we can offer). And the pain continues for weeks while their ears are taped and retaped. All for the owner to think they look cool. Docking tails is worse... it is done WITHOUT anestesia. And I have held a puppy while it got it. Along with 7 of his littermates. It was horrible. The crack as the joint gave way - followed immediately by constant SCREAMING of the puppy while it experiences the pain most people never will. It would be akin to having your finger cut off between the joints - with no pain meds - and then having them cauterize it.

wow 8/3/2004 this started and how much longer wile this be here. I thought we now put tracing devises in our pet but i do not think that cows will have them anytime some lol

I permanently identify all of my dogs with tattoos. Dogs are even skinned and do not suffer pain. The only thing that bothers them is the vibrating of the tattoo marker and they whine about that. The needle is only 1/32 long with the procedure that I use. AKC requires permanent ID on dogs and pups and I am a breeder. I can microchip too, but there are too many "chips" out there that are not readable by the scanners. By using tattoos and registering the tattoos, if my dog is lost the person finding the dog or puppy will be able to SEE the tattoo. Now that really didn't hurt too bad did it? If your dog is having pain, it is probably a mental thing, mine basically lay there and I do it by myself. Why do animal shelters offer pet tattooing clinics if it is so painful to the animal?

Me and my partner have just got a bull arab bitch and she has a green tattooe in her left ear and im trying to find out why Can anyone help

For anyone who is a UK resident, i have a petition to ban tattoos on animals (except for identification purposes) http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/banpettattooing/ please sign!

anyon who says giving you pet a tat is wrong is a fucking hypocrite. The whole idea of pet ownership is a ridiculously immoral concept when taken into human conception. You are forcing and animal into a state of slavery so you can get your jubblies of on how cute it is. that being said I am all for pet ownership, animal domestication, and owners rights in so far as they are not cruel to the animal. Humans are superior to animals and therefore can make decisions for the animals we own. some of you animal activists are just plain nuttz. Tattooing a dog, in a safe and controlled manner and pain free, is no different from putting that stupid ass outfit on it, or buying it a spiked collar. Get Bent, and worry about a real threat to your pets. MAN BEAR PIG

Smarter then you, What make you think that getting a tattoo is pain less? It's not. Giving dogs tattoos wasn't the brightest plan Us humans came up with. Personally, I think that humans don't care as long as it is cute or can save us money and time on getting our pet back, we would put them through pain of getting branded. Not all humans are but 99% are.We do things to benefit us not the creatures that live here too. Over all I think giving dogs tattoos is cruel to the animal, they can't tell you no all they can do is sit there hoping the pain will stop. It's your choice I hope you make a good choice for your pets benefit.

You guys are all douche bags for thinking it is so mean. I had my first dog tattooed when she got spaided and they put the dogs to sleep for a hour so he came and tattooed her while she was out. so she wasn't in pain. I can't wait to have my next dog done.

I HAVE to have my dog tattooed by law,she was declared vicious by the courts becasue she bit the brat next door, who has spent the last 4 years harassing her by throwing things at her in my backyard from an elevated place in his back yard,one day he came over so that my daughter could retrieve a ball that had" accidently" came over the wall and as she was giving him the ball, Chambree got out on my porch and bit him in the hip,didn't rip his jeans he didn't cry but his mom had a fit called animal control and I had to go to court and either put her down or have her declared vicious which comes with a whole passel of things that have to be done and the last is the tattoo.I am not looking forward to this and my vet is not happy about it either

Hello I would like to say i am a reg vet tech and i have been doing tattoos on animals for years. It is done normally while the dog is under for a spay or neuter. It heal before the spay or neuter is healed and I see nothing wrong with it... now any one doing it on dog or cat a wake is a crazy.. most animals in pain BITE..and they would deserve to get bitten. we tattooed feral cats so when they are captured again we don't have to torment them to see if they are spayed or neutered already. but i guess if your closed minded that much maybe we should just stop spaying and neutering are pets and see they're life expectancy decrease a good bit from cancers and other hormone related problems. Tattooing my dogs and cat all have them my dog have hearts, and my last name tattooed on them and they're micro-chip numbers. live your own life and let others live they're own.

My vet has simple tattoos on both of his dogs, and being the animal lover that i am, i thought it was cruel at first, but he then told me that if his dogs were to run away and they weren't able to read his tags they would just say "found dog Peace sign tattoo on his stomach" I think it is a great idea and i'm actually getting a heart with mom in the middle on my dog when i get him neutered.

thats wicked im gonna do the same when i take my boy in ,i should be able to do a sweet design in 1/2 hr or so on him while he is out i was thinking the heart with mom he is a 100lb suck

my friends pitbull has a tattoo of scrappy doo on his back leg!

There are a lot of judgmental people posting here that have issues with it. Most of them are expressing purely personal opinion and emotional disagreement with no logical explanation behind it. If the animal is put under and doesn't feel pain, then there's nothing wrong with it. Personally, I wouldn't do it to my pet, because I don't want to deal with closed minded people going out of their way to be rude and uncivilized to me for it (or flat out trying to hurt me! Mind you I would sue the heck out of them, but still... Why bring that kind of torment down on your own head?). I would suggest a fake earring for the look, or temporary tats or hennas for photos or whatever you are trying to do. I dress my kitty up in shirts, costumes, and take him with me almost everywhere in a pet purse. The world will never agree on everything, and just for daring to express my own opinion, I am sure I will get bashed textually... I don't really care though, as I found this site randomly, and won't be visiting again to see.

Personally I think anyone who tattoos their pets, pierces their baby's ears, or anything that falls under similar lines, is just being a self serving dick. I mean really what is the point of doing that other than being like my dog/baby/cat/goldfish is so cute and rad, look what I own, look what I have, look what I did! When kids reach 4 or 5 and they can have an opinion about piercing their ears, sure go for it, and help them take care of it, but animals can never be a part of that decision. For something that has no purpose other than blatant vanity, it's stupid choice. Its pointless. Pain factor aside, even if dogs are asleep during the procedure, they also eat their own shit and continue to lick themselves top to bottom, roll around in dirt, and I dunno... act like DOGS. I'm sure anyone who has been tattooed can imagine how awesome it would be to cover your new tattoo in saliva, dirt and shit. If anyone or anything is not capable of making a decision about and caring for the result of said decision, shouldn't have things such as tattoos forced upon them.

Check with the AKC and other professionals. Tatooing isn't done for decoration, it's done as a way of protecting breeders and identifying dogs. Research facilities can lose their lisc=neces if they are found to have a tatooed dog. The dogs and tatoos are registered with one of three different organizations. It DOES NOT hurt the animal when done, as proposed, early on. I'm amazed at all the self righteous assholes that are so quick to sound off about a topic they have no knowledge of. These are probably the same dumb asses that love their dogs so much yet keep out in the yard and only interact with them once or twice a week. Anyway, if you're not a breeder then shut the fuck up and don't worry about tatooing your holier than thou mutt.

it can be an identification for a lost or stolen animal and i'm am one who believes it is and can be good because if you think about it how many animals a day get lost or stolen. if there is some kind of personal identification on the animal there are possibly less stolenor more returned, best friends, service animials, or even protection animals, people can be very mean and i am in fact thinking of getting one on my puppy to help protect her from getting stolen she is my mental health animal and there are plenty of people whom would like to take her from me because she is a sweet and careing animal i have had one mental health anima taken and sold and i am not going to have that happen again and with a tattoo my best friend will more then likely be retuned to me if i can identify that tattoo some people are saying is abuse and for more information on this topic call your vet because they will most likely say something about it as well as microchipping which is a shot in the back of the neck and it can only be found by a vet or a pound now if you call the police and say my pet was stolen they will ask you what color and breed but how is that going to help to find them now if you have a tattoo on the animal then it can be a identifyer to find the correct animal your animal not this might be rover or might be dot just like us can be further identification for that certian person to kow for sure that is them.

at my vet's office the gal who does the ID tattooing will also tattoo the other ear with a picture at the customers request. I think this is fun!

go for it there would only be certain regions of their body such as the ear or thighs. also they have sedatives for them WHICH i highly suggest. DON'T go to a pure breed seller who will unless ironically they are an tattoo artist other wise they just use a quick ink peircer and nothing to numb it. if done right it won't hurt them so much, add a few herbal hits and none at all, and as long as you take care of it and don't apply much pressure while it heals the first 2-3 weeks it will look nice and you will have a way to identify your dog. mine has his name and owner info on it's inner thigh and 6 other tattoos he never growled or wined just sedate them and give them treats unlike the first response did

I think it's funny, the person who said that tattooing a dog should be reported to the spca. It's funny because the vet at the SPCA tattooed both my dogs. They got green 'N's on their tummies. for neutered. They didn't ask for permission, even. You'd think that something similar to a microchip could be used for identification. But no, now my two all-white chihuahuas have REALLY noticeable tats on their pink bellies. The hair is so fine it doesn't cover. It doesn't bother me thaaat much, but just knowing that they got hurt a little extra bothers me.

I think it's funny, the person who said that tattooing a dog should be reported to the spca. It's funny because the vet at the SPCA tattooed both my dogs. They got green 'N's on their tummies. for neutered. They didn't ask for permission, even. You'd think that something similar to a microchip could be used for identification. But no, now my two all-white chihuahuas have REALLY noticeable tats on their pink bellies. The hair is so fine it doesn't cover. It doesn't bother me thaaat much, but just knowing that they got hurt a little extra bothers me.

I recently rescued a bluetick coonhound and discovered afterward that she had a numbered tattoo on the inside of her right ear. Can anyone explain what this means. I first thought that she could have been from a puppy mill or just numbered as identification for hunting dog breeds. Someone told me at Petco that some vets number animals after being spayed/neutered. I welcome any educated comments. Thanks.

I have a rescued dog from a shelter who came with huge burn marks on her back. They don't bother her physically, and, amazingly, she does not seem emotionally scarred by whatever happened to her, either. I just have to keep a jacket on her in the winter to protect the exposed skin. I was thinking about maybe getting the burn marks tattooed with a color that looks like her hair, or possibly with something pretty like roses. She does not deserve to have people look at her like she is ugly just because she is missing some hair from something bad somebody did to her a long time ago. I think she would appreciate being re-beautified. Is this wrong?