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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to ban the tattooing of animals for unnecessary aesthetic reasons. More details
Submitted by Briony McIlroy – Deadline to sign up by: 05 September 2008 – Signatures: 315
More and more people in the UK are trying to get their pets tattooed. Not only is this cruel but the animal can also die of ink poisoning. Some people take them into tattooists where they are still wide awake and can feel the pain of it - they dont want tattoos but they dont have a choice. Some may try to sedate them but they obviously don't know properly how to do so and risk over sedating, and therefore killing the animal. Others get vets to tattoo their pets while undergoing operations. This is sick and wrong, it is cruel and must be stopped! We believe that the owners of the animal should be prosecuted, aswell as the vet or tattooist that did the tattoo.
This is not to say that identity tattoos should be banned, as these can be necessary in some cases, though these have a purpose, whereas the only purpose of a cosmetic tattoo is to cause pain and suffering to the animal, just to make it look 'good'.
we do have a facebook group and a myspace for people to go to if they want more information, the facebook group is called Help stop animal cruelty - ban pet tattoos. and the myspace is bananimaltattooing
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