@ItalianPrincess1217 While I care about animals, and think docking tails and ears is an unnecessary practice, it still isn’t cruelty if done properly. Too many people are too quick to judge certain procedures as cruel with no knowledge beforehand. I am a hunter, and I eat the animals I kill. I have been accused of being a barbarian and a psycho because I willingly shoot animals to death in order to eat them. I don’t have to justify my dietary choices to anyone. You call me what you like, I don’t care and I won’t be inviting you to dinner anytime soon.
While I own a dog with cropped ears and a cropped tail, she came that way; I didn’t pay to have it done. If I got another dog of that breed, I probably wouldn’t do it, because it is unnecessary. If I did want it done, I’d make sure it was done by a qualified person that did it using a painless procedure.
If other people want to do it, what gives me the right to say that they can’t? When do my morals suddenly have more value than the morals of others? I am not the sort who finds it my business to tell others what they can or cannot do, as long as what they do is not illegal. Docking dog’s tails and ears is NOT illegal; unneccessary, perhaps, but then, so is piercing infant girls’ ears, which I think is also pointless.
Self-righteousness is the only unforgivable sin, in my opinion.
The true definition of barbarian is: One who destroys that which he does not understand.