Recently, a volunteer from a rescue centre in Hong Kong released a photograph of a stray dog being sterilized.
I only saw the dog's ear cut off in half of the picture. It's obvious even from far away!
According to the volunteer, the dog was involved in the Free Dog Sterilization Programme of the Rescue Centre, which provides services such as sterilization and vaccinations to pet dogs or stray dogs free of charge, in order to avoid excessive reproduction by stray animals.
It's a good thing in itself, but it's cruel for the aid center to see which dogs have been sterilized and cut off half their ears.
In this regard, the Centre responded that, in general, we would not cut the ears of a sterilised dog unless the owner offered to do so, whereas the cut of the ears of a stray dog was offered by volunteers and the scope of the cut was standard.
The rescue centre stated that the ideal scope of ear cutting was still visible at a certain distance, usually with less than one third of the ear cut, so the dog had no problem with the ear cut.
That's the normal cutter.
In fact, in foreign countries, there are few animal sterilization institutions that follow the method of cutting ears, which are identified using tattoos to minimize harm to animals.
However, the Centre said that tattoos were hard to see and that dogs were needed to see them, so it saved time by cutting ears and identifying them.
It was also said that the rescue centre was not the first time that it had cut its ears many times, and that some of its owners had tanned pictures of their pets, indicating that their babies were suffering.
Free sterilization of stray animals is a good thing.
