Want to Help Your Pet's Self-Esteem?

[Spacewriter]

Especially if he is no longer a "he"?

In the range of strange, this one takes the cake:

http://www.neuticles.com/index1.html

I swear you can't make stuff like this up!?!! I love their logo...

(warning: mildly adult content about neutering)

[Gillianren]

My pet's a cat. He's got all the self-esteem he needs.

[sabotai]

Saw this on Penn and Teller's Showtime show not too long ago.

This is why I will never be rich. I can't even begin to figure out how people come up with these kinds of ideas.

[Melusine]

Oh my, I wasn't aware of Neuticles. The customers claim that their pets are happier for having Neuticles--how do they know this? Who knows, some might be happy to have them gone. I have never noticed a change in disposition in any of my male cats after having been neutered, except to calm down a bit and stop spraying. But I always neutered them by six months old. As Gillianren said, my male cat doesn't need any ego-boosting.


"He's a guy and I wanted him to remain looking like one."

"A dog is like a kid- consideration for his feelings."

"Just call me a caring pet owner."

:shifty:

I'm wondering if anyone here feels that way; I mean, I love animals, and I absolutely will never declaw a cat, but I've never felt pangs of guilt for neutering them. Ok......

[dakini]

Animals don't care how they look. And really, unless the fake testicles for pets release testosterone, the animal won't notice the differnce other than the extra surgery required.

[Sammy]

Animals don't care how they look. And really, unless the fake testicles for pets release testosterone, the animal won't notice the differnce other than the extra surgery required.

I tend to agree, especially RE the testicles. But my Old English Sheepdog did seem to respond to his annual summer shearing. We had his very dense coat thinned at the start of each tropic-like Washington, DC summer. He looked dramatically smaller and thinner, and seemed to act very sheepish (no pun intended) for days afterwards.

Maybe we were interpreting his begavior from out own perspedtive, but he sure seemed shy/timid until his coat grew back.

[mickal555]

I just saw this on penn and teller and I logged on to BAUT saw this thread title and woundered if it was about neuticles fetured on P&T...


Coincidence?

[Weird Dave]

A blog entry (http://voluntaryxchange.typepad.com/voluntaryxchange/2004/11/some_economics_.html) on the economics of neuticles (and cheating at dog shows).
And they won the 2005 Ig-Nobel prize (http://www.improb.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html) for medicine.

[Edit] Sorry, I've just noticed Neuticles mention the Ig-Nobels on their own web page. Although maybe they're taking it a little too seriously...

[farmerjumperdon]

I tend to agree, especially RE the testicles. But my Old English Sheepdog did seem to respond to his annual summer shearing. We had his very dense coat thinned at the start of each tropic-like Washington, DC summer. He looked dramatically smaller and thinner, and seemed to act very sheepish (no pun intended) for days afterwards.

Maybe we were interpreting his begavior from out own perspedtive, but he sure seemed shy/timid until his coat grew back.

We used to do the same for our St. Bernard. Even in the Northland, summers were just way too hot for the big fellow. I wouldn't get another one unless I lived in an alpine environment.