Boulder pet owner fined for dying her poodle with beet juice
The $1,000 fine is for breaking of a city ordinace prohibiting the dying or colorizing of an animal. Think I'm kidding? Here's a news story on it: Link to Colorado News article I think this is just crazy. What business is it of anyone's if I want to dye my sheepdog pink or blue or otherwise highlight his hair? What about beard whitening, is that outlawed by the intent of this ordinance? How about tatooing the nose? How about tatooing a registration number? What about the implanting of a microchip? What happened to liberal Boulder? |
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Yup, that's Boulder, my hometown! The most liberal dictatorship in the country.  |
| whew glad not here. My son 2 years ago dyed my poodle blue(washed out) To go with the Oilers hockey team at the time. |
| This became a law in many areas due to the coloring of easter chicks and bunnies with fabric dyes around Easter. Today, there are products made especially for coloring the hair of pets. Non-toxic items such as non-sweetened Kool-Aid, sidewalk chalk and Blo-Pens are often used by top groomers.
IMO, the woman should have been arrested for making that dog wear a dress, not for coloring her pink.  |
Maggie McGee IV wrote: This became a law in many areas due to the coloring of easter chicks and bunnies with fabric dyes around Easter. Today, there are products made especially for coloring the hair of pets. Non-toxic items such as non-sweetened Kool-Aid, sidewalk chalk and Blo-Pens are often used by top groomers.
IMO, the woman should have been arrested for making that dog wear a dress, not for coloring her pink. I agree...Pirate wanted to wear a dress one day, but Keira and I won't let him  |
| Yes, the commercial sale of dyed bunnies and chicks and ducks at Easter years ago with unsafe substances was the reasoning behind the law. As Nita mentioned, there are safe products now, but the intent at the time was protection for the animals. |
| She hasn't actually had to pay the fine yet. I'd be more interested to see what the outcome of the court proceeding is. |
Beaureguard's Mom wrote: Yes, the commercial sale of dyed bunnies and chicks and ducks at Easter years ago with unsafe substances was the reasoning behind the law. As Nita mentioned, there are safe products now, but the intent at the time was protection for the animals. Ummm, then how about a law referring to the unsafe practices, or better yet, if it is determinable that the substances were in fact harmful, how about just applying the animal protection laws already on the books?
What's with a city passing a law like this anyway? What if I had brought my pink dyed sheepdog to town on a visit? Do they really expect people to read all city ordinances when they travel or even move into a town? Has anyone here EVER read all of their towns laws, bylaws and ordinances to ensure they aren't running afoul of one of them? Preposterous. Maybe NEOESR ought to check with the town in which they are holding their picnic and ensure there are no ordinances against hat contests and other completely benign practices. I don't know if you can tell, but the more I think about this the more I am gettting worked up about it. I'm nearly furious (in an intellectual sort of way). |
Ron wrote: Ummm, then how about a law referring to the unsafe practices, or better yet, if it is determinable that the substances were in fact harmful, how about just applying the animal protection laws already on the books?
Many animal protection laws don't apply to birds or rabbits, so that is probably why most states have specific statutes regarding the dying of chicks and birds. I'd have to look at the statute, but my bet is it was not intended to apply to pets, but just to animals in commerce... I bet it gets thrown out. |
| Margo and I use a groomer who is also a standard poodle breeder, and competes in grooming shows with her dogs that are dyed all kinds of colors - all with vegetable dye. In fact, I think it was just last week that she went to Atlanta for some big competition in it.
There's a standard poodle in my neighborhood who is fawn colored, and he is dyed with black tiger stripes. He looks great if you ask me. It's perfectly common - there are tons of pictures of both dogs and cats dyed all over the web! Just a couple: http://www.houseofplum.com/gallery/Green%20Dog.jpg http://www.hiresphotos.com/Photos/Anima ... odle15.jpg I'm with you, Ron. How dare they! |
| I've been waiting for someone to mention that she's a hairdresser! She dyes people's hair all day long... |
Next week I will be dyeing mylittle llohso to celibrate spring. I am thinking blue and pink this year.  |
| I agree with Ron about the law. I'm sorry, but I would think common sense would tell people not to 'dye' their animals......... |
I agree that dyeing your animal is a bit stupid. But having said that I have to say that I do it about a week before Tinker's shaving down. The kids at the museum think it is fun, and Tinker's job is is all about making toddlers happy. He doesn't get paid much about a dollar an hour, but he loves his job.  |
| "Boulder Animal care and Control officers say they have received several complaints about the pink poodle's coloring"
Really? Don't people have better things to do than call and complain about stuff like this? Unless you somehow knew that it was hurting or detrimental to the animal why would you have a problem with it? I wonder how many complaints there were and how many were from seperate people...or if the same person just called several times  |
| Or if nobody called at all, and it's just a pet peeve of (an) animal control officer(s) who also may have been the one to push the silly and/or poorly written ordinance in the first place.
Woooops! Was that out loud? |
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I'd be more worried about getting all the beet juice out since it stains so badly. |
Amanda P wrote: "Boulder Animal care and Control officers say they have received several complaints about the pink poodle's coloring"
Really? Don't people have better things to do than call and complain about stuff like this? Unless you somehow knew that it was hurting or detrimental to the animal why would you have a problem with it? I wonder how many complaints there were and how many were from seperate people...or if the same person just called several times Somehow I don't find it surprising that Boulder would have a number of easily offended residents - Somehow I always picture the people that found California too conservative moved to places like Boulder. I bet they have a large PITA representation. Disclaimer: No offense to California, Boulder, Denver, Seattle ............ |
Quote: It's perfectly common - there are tons of pictures of both dogs and cats dyed all over the web! Just a couple:
http://www.houseofplum.com/gallery/Green%20Dog.jpg Does anyone else think the woman standing next to a giant green poodle has much too serious a look on her face?  |
Scruffy's Mom wrote: Does anyone else think the woman standing next to a giant green poodle has much too serious a look on her face? Yes!
I am not sure what that reminds me of... maybe Jolly Green Rancher? |
| Ok the one saying I always heard about Boulder "Trustafarian" (sp). Nice place, nice people, but lots of trust fund kids who want to be hippies. God only knows where that law came from. Used to live there or close by so that is where the information came from. |
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