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Originally Posted by MrsMike
 For female dogs there is a procedure called vulvaplasty, where most of the skin (excess, not normal) around the vulva is surgically removed.
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I cleaned out my horse's "prepuce" (we called it a sheath, I don't know if that's not the real word or what. but that's what we called it)
He would walk funny when it was really dirty, you could tell it bothered him.
Plus he was a HORSE and ADULT HORSE. Have you ever seen a stallion pee? There is like a mile of penis in there, they are totally retractable. With human babies, you don't clean because they are fused. Adult human males clean themselves, why wouldn't you clean a horse?
I am also floored by the lectures that I have received for having dogs with docked tails (one was really born with no tail, and the other was docked by the breeder) when they think circs are necessary and healthy.
Not to start another argument, but you really can't compare animals ears and tails to a human baby's penis. KWIM? If I had it to do again, I would dock my min pin's ears. He has had sooooo many infections, torn hears, thorns and things stuck really deeply in them. I feel like his ears are too big for his body, like it's an error in breeding. Does that make any sense? Like how Pugs have breathing issues because they were breed with the smooshed faces?
) and in more than one episode there have been cases where an owner has wrapped a rubber band around a body part (tails, ears, toes, etc.) to make it fall off and the investigators just go on and on about how cruel and painful it is - but that's exactly what a Plastibell circumcision is. And nobody seems to make the connection.
