Fashion for cosmetic surgeries for pets around your ears and which resemble Disney star mice, Mickey Mouseis controversial in China, where many people consider it animal cruelty and want it banned.

By price 300 yuan ($42, 38 euros) a veterinary clinic in Chongqing (central), for example, is offering group purchases of Mickey Ears surgeries for pets as a “special offer.”

The proposal illustrates a trend that has drawn the ire of animal rights activists and experts in the field. They demand that such interventions be vetoed. because of the physical harm and psychological effects they cause on animals, especially dogs and cats.

The operation, currently legal in China, consists of two stages: the first lasts half an hour, It is performed under anesthesia and involves surgically trimming the animal’s ears to round them, and the second involves “shaping” them so that the auditory appendage remains in an upright position.

The head of the Loving Care International veterinary center in Beijing, Liu Yudong, explained to the newspaper that the second stage lasts from 20 to 60 days and requires “frequent adjustments.” Make sure your ears remain straight.

Although it has become a fashion, Liu clarified that The procedure is rarely performed in veterinary clinics in large cities.albeit in incubators.

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“This is a moral issue,” the veterinarian concluded, assuring that both he and his colleagues are categorically against this type of operation, since the main duty in their profession is to work for the welfare of animals.

Several doctors also warned about the impact of this practice on the physical and mental health of pets“From the risks of anesthesia to the possibility of animals developing self-injurious behavior due to pain,” warned Chen Yang of Lianhe Veterinary Hospital in the southeastern city of Shenzhen.

Numerous Chinese Internet users also joined in the criticism of experts, They harshly criticized fashion “Mickey Mouse ears.”

“If owners find this so adorable, let them cut off their ears,” said one user, while another felt the practice was “animal cruelty, not love,” and a third wondered if they whoever mutilates the tails and ears of animals, the animals are sick.

(EFE)