Banfield Vet Hospital discontinues cosmetic ear cropping/tail docking

[Sweet72947]

I know I'm posting this at the risk of starting another lengthy thread that will go around in circles and end up nowhere, but I thought some people might be interested to know about this chain's decision.

Banfield discontinues cosmetic ear cropping, tail docking - DVM

"After thoughtful consideration and reviewing medical research, we have determined it is in the best interest of the pets we treat, as well as the overall practice, to discontinue performing these unnecessary cosmetic procedures,"

So I guess they feel its in a pet's better interest for these procedures to be performed at home by people who don't know what they're doing? (Because if other vets stop doing it too, that will just drive the practice underground, it will not stop it).

 

[Criosphynx]

now if only they would quit pumping dogs full of vaccines!

I wouldn't trust a banfield to do anything surgical anyway. LOL

 

[4dogs3cats]

now if only they would quit pumping dogs full of vaccines!

I wouldn't trust a banfield to do anything surgical anyway. LOL

I was just going to say, banfield is just that. Banfield. Just like the chain of pet stores they are located in, I probably wouldn't trust banfield to crop my dogs ears.

They did an amazing job helping Chance when he had parvo though. Routine things, I'd go to them, but for specialty things, I'd go to a more personalized vet.

 

[-bogart-]

now if only they would quit pumping dogs full of vaccines!

I wouldn't trust a banfield to do anything surgical anyway. LOL

I wouldn't alow ANYONE without extensive crop background near my animals.

 

[bubbatd]

Kudos to them !

 

[StillandSilent]

We had a boarding puppy at daycare last month who was cropped at Banfield. I couldn't tell you if it was a good job or not, but her owners apparently thought that a combo daycare/boarding for two weeks was the appropriate place to bring her with her ears still taped.
Naturally, the bandages got messed up and I ended up driving her out to Banfield to have the tape removed and them looked at. The vet we saw admitted that he didn't know much about the procedure and had to call in another vet. He mentioned that Banfield would no longer be doing crops, but I assumed that he meant that particualr office, not the entire chain.
PS- The same puppy is boarding again now, without the tape. Is it normal for freshly cropped (but totally healed) ears to look like they are on backwards?

 

[Vintage Boxers]

Still and Silent...no it isn't normal but par for the course for the "vet" they used


Sorry but i am not surprised, as this "banfield" is a joke IMO...you are located IN PETSMART..why would you take your dog there for any surgical procedure...just off in my mind.

A vet that does ear cropping should not only have ALOT of experience , they should have learned from someone even MORE experienced. Almost like an apprenticeship!
Cropping won't stop by having the vets stop doing it just like the OP posted....it will make the people that are still wanting it (the not so good guys ) to do it in their basements, like they do now.
No that doesn't mean because i want it i would do it , i am saying it is like banning guns, the bad guys will still have them, and the good guys won't, what sense does that make?

S

 

[dobesgalore]

What is the banfild vet chain? It must be in another part of the country because I have never heard of it.

 

[Zoom]

You know the store Petsmart? It's the vet located inside those stores.

 

[Fran101]

lol Banfield is crap anyway. way to overpriced and they give puppies/dogs like 100 vaccinations!

 

[Criosphynx]

Having worked at petsmart for over 3 years (many years ago) and having to to into banfield almost daily to put the dead animals the store couldn't keep alive into the large freezer.... I can say I've seen som' interesting things occur in banfield.

I stopped volunteering to dispose of the dead animals after I talked to a sleeping dog in a cage and had the horrifying realization that the dog was dead...and then having a member of banfield staff come up behind me laughing because I was talking to a dead dog.

I've seen them euthanize animals while cracking jokes and heard them brag about throwing a rat against the wall after they killed it.

So yeah. I don't care for them.

 

[lakotasong]

Banfield discontinues cosmetic ear cropping, tail docking - DVM

Kudos - that's all I have to say.

 

[dobesgalore]

You know the store Petsmart? It's the vet located inside those stores.

Really? The Petsmart near us dosn't have a vet in it. I've never heard of that. I wouldn't use a vet in a petstore anyway.

 

[bubbatd]

They sure don't get the cream of the crop from vet school . No pun intended .

 

[Tazwell]

Banfield isn't exactly a "Petsmart Vet"; They're normally vets that already had their own establishments locally, but moved into the store as "Banfield". Plenty of clientele there! Petsmart doesn't train or school it's own vets, or at least not in this region.

I hate to see that they're no longer doing the procedures... Like stated before, I hope this doesn't catch on with many veterinary hospitals!

 

[tessa_s212]

My vet refuses to crop puppies or dogs, but will tail dock, and I was very happy to find this out.

 

[noodlerubyallie]

Good. Just because a vet CAN crop ears, doesn't mean they SHOULD.

It's an art, and takes years to learn how to create a beautiful crop. So many people don't understand that, and learn the hard way when they ask a vet to do it and end up with ears that don't stand, ears that look like sh**, ears with pockets, etc, etc.

 

[Fran101]

Good. Just because a vet CAN crop ears, doesn't mean they SHOULD.

It's an art, and takes years to learn how to create a beautiful crop. So many people don't understand that, and learn the hard way when they ask a vet to do it and end up with ears that don't stand, ears that look like sh**, ears with pockets, etc, etc.

I agree with this. I have seen some HORRIBLE crops. my vet doesn't crop but he refers those who need it done to someone who is good @ it

I have seen some nightmarish crops.. even some where one ear looked very different from the other

 

[Doberluv]

They sure don't get the cream of the crop from vet school . No pun intended .

:rofl1: That was good.

It's just as well that they aren't doing the crops. Like it was said, not just any ole' vet has any business doing crops anyhow. It is a specialty.

 

[Lilavati]

I'm indifferent, though these things should be done by those who know how to do them.

As for the quality of Banfield . . . we moved so much that we often ended up there when the cats needed something . . . some of them were good, some where bad . . . it was at a Banfield where the vet blew me off when I told him that Bago was dangerous . . . and got some wicked scratches for it. . . . Sign of a bad vet . . . when an owner tells you that an animal is dangerous and will fly into a berserker rage the minute a stranger in a vet clinic touches him . . . its best not to grab the cat in question bare hands and arms saying "I'm a professional." The owner may know what she's talking about.