Woman Faces Fine For Pink Poodle Dyed To Help Raise Awareness For Breast Cancer

[IRescue452]

This is one of those laws that needs to be more specific and discriminate between humane and inhumane cases. I color Autumn for the Bark in the Park fund raiser walk. Wallace had a mohawk this summer we were thinking of coloring blue (just temporary color). Since the lady was warned, she shouldn't have dyed the dog, but honestly I think they shouldn't be using so many resources preventing a dye job on a dog who's probably never been ill-treated in its life. They should be concentrating on real cruelty cases.

[KYS]

I have mixed feelings also. If the products are safe and she is not harming
her pup? I agree she needs to work on changing the law.

[Pembroke_Corgi]

This happened pretty close to where I live so it's been on the local news a lot. I'm surprised it made national news. Considering it is Boulder (it's a great city, but there are quite a few nuts there), I wouldn't be surprised it the lady did it repeatedly just FOR the publicity.

I think the law is a sound one- they probably enacted it to protect animals, so I think she should have just obeyed the law and did something else to "raise awareness."

[Twisterdog]

That is one of the most ridiculous laws I have heard about.

[jackie]

That is one of the most ridiculous laws I have heard about.

Why? Lots of people dye chickens and rabbits for Easter using toxic colours which can harm the animals health. It is put into place to protect animals, it is an excellent law.

Who should be the one who decides which dye job is acceptable? Justice is supposed to be blind right?

[Catty1]

[IRescue452]

She should work on changing the law so that animals are not allowed to be SOLD dyed.

[Twisterdog]

Why? Lots of people dye chickens and rabbits for Easter using toxic colours which can harm the animals health. It is put into place to protect animals, it is an excellent law.

Who should be the one who decides which dye job is acceptable? Justice is supposed to be blind right?

Then the law should state that it is illegal to dye an animal using toxic dye. It needs to be more specific.

There is absolutely nothing cruel or wrong about dying a dog's coat with a non-toxic dye. What is the difference is saying you will be fined for putting some green Kool Aid on your dog for St. Patrick's day, and saying you will be fined for shaving your dog's tail to look like a lion's tail, or giving a dog a mohawk? How about dressing your dog up in clothes or painting it's toenails? It's simply silly.

IMO, the resources of the animal control agencies and the legal system would be put to FAR better use by spending their time and money investigating and prosecuting people who torture, neglect, beat, fight and starve their pets, than someone who is dyed a poodle pink to raise money for a charity. Common sense is severly lacking here.