Is extreme dog grooming animal cruelty? Pics are at the bottom.
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One woman carefully snips Cleopatra’s crown into her poodle’s thick, black coat. Another carves zebras and elephants into a white poodle’s fur to create a Madagascan landscape. Popeye and Bluto face off on two legs of another patient poodle, and a shark wraps around the side of a glitter-dusted dog with a sea horse staring out from its haunches. Toto, we’re not in Kansas anymore.
Each year, extreme dog groomers battle to win the Creative Grooming competition at Intergroom, a dog show at the Garden State Convention Center in Somerset, New Jersey. Poodles are the breed of choice for this growing community of pet stylists who use color dyes, scissors and imagination to metamorphose their dogs. It’s not easy turning a dog into a dinosaur, but the hours of painstaking effort can yield a cash prize of $1,000 and a coveted spot on the cover of Groomer to Groomer magazine.
Competitive groomers actually love and spoil their dogs way more than your neighbor who leaves it in its fence or kennel 24/7. It's essentially haircuts and dog dye, nothing cruel is happening to them and it's another bonding moment for pet and owner.
If anything they are cruel to the people having to look at them otherwise the dog remains clueless and unbothered.
Plus as someone mentioned above these dogs are treated extremely well. My dog does not shed and her hair grows like crazy so I get her practically shaved in the beginning of summer she looks like a rat but she is the most spoiled dog.
Shocking Dog Grooming
