Saskatchewan SPCA Encourages Saskatoon Pet Owners To Refrain From Do-It-Yourself Neuter Surgeries

Huffington Post (Canada)

30 October 2012

SASKATOON – It could be taking the DIY movement too far.

The Saskatchewan SPCA says it is getting reports from across the province of people performing do-it-yourself surgery on their pets.

SPCA manager Kaley Pugh says veterinarians have reported treating dogs "who have suffered from this practice."

This year she's seen five reports of dog owners using elastrator bands to neuter their male dogs, a practice usually found on the farm when castrating young bulls.

Pugh says such people may assume the practice is transferable, but it's not because unlike bulls, dogs can lick and chew the area that's under pressure, thus inflicting more damage.

She also speculates such people may not want to pay the vet bill to have their dog neutered.

"The photographs I've seen are quite shocking," said Pugh. "Animals with significant wounds and bleeding and rotting tissue still attached to the animal.

"The damage is significant and they did need emergency medical care or they would have likely passed away from their injuries."

At the Cumberland Veterinary clinic in Saskatoon, Dr. Terri Chotowitz said even with her years of experience neutering animals, even she can't do the procedure at home.

"There's no way you can get that (elastrator band) tight enough without causing a lot of discomfort for the dog," said Chotowitz. "I can only imagine how much chewing and licking and trauma they are doing to that area, trying to get that off. To use an elastrator ring is terrible and it doesn't make sense on any level."

She added dog-owners who refuse to pay for a proper neutering procedure will end up paying a lot more trying to repair the damage done.

Pugh said if they can't afford the surgery, they probably shouldn't have a dog in the first place.

The City of Saskatoon offers a subsidized spay-neuter program where low-income families can qualify for a pet surgery for a small fraction of the full price.

Pugh said such practices could be in violation of the Animal Protection Act and the Criminal Code and said the SPCA may start launching investigations.

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I lived in Saskatchewan for twenty-seven years. The people there are backwards to say the least. I fled Saskatchewan, feeling like a refugee from a failed state.

My family still lives there, so I feel bad painting everyone in the province with the same brush, but the majority of them are hicks. If you are well educated, you are the enemy. If you are a different skin color, you are the enemy. If you act different, you are the enemy. If you read a book, or think for yourself, or ever have an original thought, you are the enemy.

The people doing this to their animals are not just uneducated, but they're uneducated and proud of it. Being a moron is considered a virtue. Being reckless, uncaring, and thoughtless is celebrated. Cruelty isn't just accepted, it is the norm.

This article does not surprise me in the least. I've seen adults stomp unwanted kittens to death on the sidewalk in front of children, then laugh about it. (True story.) This is just their kind of thinking. Torturing a dog to save a few bucks on neutering might be reason, but more likely it is done because the owner thinks it is funny. Watching a dog chew off it's own testicles due to banding that is too tight, would be considered good Friday night entertainment.

There are exceptions to the rule in Saskatchewan, but those exceptions are rare. The majority of folk from that province love their cruelties like an old friend. Only when I moved out west did I realize just how bad it really was. It was like living in a Road Warrior movie. Only, instead of armoured dune buggies, they all drove Ford pickup trucks, and listened to Shania Twain.

Cainanite (imported) wrote: Thu Nov 01, 2012 12:34 pm I lived in Saskatchewan for twenty-seven years. The people there are backwards to say the least. I fled Saskatchewan, feeling like a refugee from a failed state.

My family still lives there, so I feel bad painting everyone in the province with the same brush, but the majority of them are hicks. If you are well educated, you are the enemy. If you are a different skin color, you are the enemy. If you act different, you are the enemy. If you read a book, or think for yourself, or ever have an original thought, you are the enemy.

The people doing this to their animals are not just uneducated, but they're uneducated and proud of it. Being a moron is considered a virtue. Being reckless, uncaring, and thoughtless is celebrated. Cruelty isn't just accepted, it is the norm.

This article does not surprise me in the least. I've seen adults stomp unwanted kittens to death on the sidewalk in front of children, then laugh about it. (True story.) This is just their kind of thinking. Torturing a dog to save a few bucks on neutering might be reason, but more likely it is done because the owner thinks it is funny. Watching a dog chew off it's own testicles due to banding that is too tight, would be considered good Friday night entertainment.

There are exceptions to the rule in Saskatchewan, but those exceptions are rare. The majority of folk from that province love their cruelties like an old friend. Only when I moved out west did I realize just how bad it really was. It was like living in a Road Warrior movie. Only, instead of armoured dune buggies, they all drove Ford pickup trucks, and listened to Shania Twain.

Sounds like a typical tea bagger

I'm just speechless reading that.

Were the injured dogs on the roof?!

Before I got into junior high school, I had become enamored of the notion of solving a puzzlement.

More than 60 years later, having worked arduously and with unbroken resolve, I may have a hint of a clue as to the nature of the puzzlement.

I could put it in words, my being labeled in my primary care physician's records as being of the "high-functioning autism" human subspecies (for those not in the know or in the no, "high-functioning autism" is a form of euphemism for the more socially unacceptable labels of "Kanner-type autism" or "severe language-delay autism.")

Those medical records contain, rather accurately stated, my way of dealing with "language-delay autism," and it is, for those who are able to recognize it, blatantly out in plain sight in what I post here (and elsewhere) on the Internet.

I am nicely and accurately also labeled "hyperverbal."

Truth sometimes gains recognition.

Because, throughout my life, I have almost never been able to get words to work in ways that do not befuddle me when other people encounter my words, I set out long ago to use as many words, as fast and often as my life allowed, in the perhaps-not-entirely-vain hope that, if I use enough of them, even the simplest forms of chaos theory suggest to me that a few words I use may eventually work in some way not remarkably opposite to what I expected when I put them out.

My way of compensating for being biologically almost incapable of getting words to work has been using as many of them as I can get out. Sort of like wading through a Gordian knot of scrambled, broken Markov chains?

The puzzlement:

What makes (a few? some? many? almost all? all?) people become brilliantly as though intransigently stupid and adamantly ignorant, outside any semblance of individual or social conscious awareness?

In the manner of the Jeopardy television program (is it still being broadcast? I saw parts of a couple shows perhaps 20 years ago.)...

"What is neurological injury in the form of the trauma of the western culture's traditional infant-child transition of typically 18 months of age, when it results in stark amnesia for the inborn honesty of newborn infants?"

It now appears to me that the (tragically?) commonplace infant-child transition may be putting the whole of extant humanity in Jeopardy.

(Is my use of the word, "Jeopardy" putting my life in jeopardy from corporate privatization of the commons lawyerly action as consequence of my hyperverbal word abusage being deemed a form of trademark infringement?)

Don't stop the world! I don't want to get off it, not yet.

"Getting off" may have more than one meaning?

Cainanite (imported) wrote: Thu Nov 01, 2012 12:34 pm I lived in Saskatchewan for twenty-seven years. The people there are backwards to say the least. I fled Saskatchewan, feeling like a refugee from a failed state.

My family still lives there, so I feel bad painting everyone in the province with the same brush, but the majority of them are hicks. If you are well educated, you are the enemy. If you are a different skin color, you are the enemy. If you act different, you are the enemy. If you read a book, or think for yourself, or ever have an original thought, you are the enemy.

The people doing this to their animals are not just uneducated, but they're uneducated and proud of it. Being a moron is considered a virtue. Being reckless, uncaring, and thoughtless is celebrated. Cruelty isn't just accepted, it is the norm.

This article does not surprise me in the least. I've seen adults stomp unwanted kittens to death on the sidewalk in front of children, then laugh about it. (True story.) This is just their kind of thinking. Torturing a dog to save a few bucks on neutering might be reason, but more likely it is done because the owner thinks it is funny. Watching a dog chew off it's own testicles due to banding that is too tight, would be considered good Friday night entertainment.

There are exceptions to the rule in Saskatchewan, but those exceptions are rare. The majority of folk from that province love their cruelties like an old friend. Only when I moved out west did I realize just how bad it really was. It was like living in a Road Warrior movie. Only, instead of armoured dune buggies, they all drove Ford pickup trucks, and listened to Shania Twain.

Oh think god you moved, we had no idea. Sounds like parts of our south.

River

Cainanite (imported) wrote: Thu Nov 01, 2012 12:34 pm The people doing this to their animals are not just uneducated, but they're uneducated and proud of it. Being a moron is considered a virtue. Being reckless, uncaring, and thoughtless is celebrated. Cruelty isn't just accepted, it is the norm.

We have these kinds of people here in the US - we call them Republicans.

Their party mascot should be changed from an Elephant to Alfred E. Newman.

--LT