What? They can’t give face lifts to dogs? What will Cher do?
No, wait…It’s not that:
The mayor of West Hollywood — a liberal, pet-embracing city adjacent to Los Angeles that two years ago brought America a ban on the declawing of cats — has proposed a new ordinance making “tail-docking” and “ear-cropping” illegal.
The new law, which was scheduled for debate before the West Hollywood City Council on Monday, would also ban other nontherapeutic or cosmetic surgeries on animals.
“By docking the tails of dogs or cropping their ears, animals are subjected to painful and unnecessary procedures and somebody has to stand up to this cruelty,” West Hollywood Mayor John Duran said in a written statement.
Oh.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.