Pink Elephants? Try animal abuse

[BC_MoM]

I don't think that's animal abuse. When I took riding lessons, our instructor would paints parts of the horse for our theory classes.

[lizbud]

It's an abuse against common sense. A really dumb idea.

[animal_rescue]

I don't think it's abuse... We used to(and still can) paint our horses in 4-h for Contesting Day. It's quite fun and none of the horse mind. Heck we'll even paint ourselves, so we match the horses!

[BC_MoM]

I don't think it's abuse... We used to(and still can) paint our horses in 4-h for Contesting Day. It's quite fun and none of the horse mind. Heck we'll even paint ourselves, so we match the horses!

Fun times! I remember doing that for Halloween contests at the stable.

[K9soul]

I would think paint over some fur (such as on a horse) would feel different than paint directly on the skin. The paint is clogging the skin pores it would seem like, on the elephant, whereas on a horse, the paint is over the hair and not directly on the skin so much... I could be wrong though. I don't know much about the elephant's situation, but my first inclination is that I don't care for it.

[Husky15]

Technically, I don't think this is abuse. But I'm sure the elephant doesn't favor this...

[Miss Z]

Gah, what a pointless thing to do Paint is for paper, not elephants.

[Vette]

It's an abuse against common sense. A really dumb idea.

Exactly...

wonder how much money goes into that.
when the money could go for helping people out..
instead of spending it on a bunch of stupid paint.

[sparks19]

Hardly animal abuse. it may be stupid but it is not abuse. I mean people dress up their dogs in CLOTHES for crying out loud. I doubt it feels really good to have an extra layer on and it probably messes with their hair but no one screams abuse about that. Sitting pretty is probably uncomfortable for Teddy but he still does it if I ask. Is that abuse? NO.

I think people are being a little sensitive about paint on an elephant. he may not be jumping for joy but how do you know the paint feels the same to him as it does on your skin. maybe it feels like a mudbath. You don't know, you are just assuming.

Like I said painting an elephant for art is stupid but not abuse.

Vette, that's a wonderful thought. putting the money towards something good instead of buying paint BUT painting is what gives him the money to buy the paint in the first place. if he doesn't paint he doesn't make money.

[Lady's Human]

One, the artist had to rent an elephant. Not cheap. Two, he had to get the paint. Assuming it's body paint, again, not cheap. It was a piece of "performance art". the painting wasn't sold, he essentially rented out his time.

Again, a fiberglass mockup would have been just as effective.

[Jessika]

Hardly animal abuse. it may be stupid but it is not abuse. I mean people dress up their dogs in CLOTHES for crying out loud. I doubt it feels really good to have an extra layer on and it probably messes with their hair but no one screams abuse about that. Sitting pretty is probably uncomfortable for Teddy but he still does it if I ask. Is that abuse? NO.

I think people are being a little sensitive about paint on an elephant. he may not be jumping for joy but how do you know the paint feels the same to him as it does on your skin. maybe it feels like a mudbath. You don't know, you are just assuming.

Like I said painting an elephant for art is stupid but not abuse.

Vette, that's a wonderful thought. putting the money towards something good instead of buying paint BUT painting is what gives him the money to buy the paint in the first place. if he doesn't paint he doesn't make money.

I agree. I may not like it or think it's art either but abuse??

People "paint" dogs and cats and horses, I see no one screaming abuse about that. Some of them can be quite gorgeous, as per the link posted above

[cuteinpink]

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[Lady's Human]

Once again, the difference between painting or dying the fur on a dog, cat or a horse and what they did to the elephant is that on the elephant the paint was applied directly to the animal's skin, as opposed to painting or dying the fur.

[Jessika]

I would consider it abuse it if were a substance that did not allow the skin to breate or restricted movement at all or even caused pain, harm or discomfort, but from my understanding, that was not the case?

[sparks19]

Yes. Everyone is assuming the elephant is extremely uncomfortable.

how do you know? Just because paint may not be comfortable for people (yet people do it all the time) how do you know it doesn't feel good to the elephant. It could feel like a mud bath. You don't know. You are just assuming the worst.

Hardly abuse.

Whipping it, hitting it, kicking it, pinching it, not feeding it. THESE are examples of abuse. painting an elephant for a couple of hours is not.