List of mutilatory procedures on animals
This is a list of mutilatory procedures routinely performed on animals. The procedures, the reasons for their being conducted and the welfare consequences have mostly been described in Wikipedia or in a report by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.[1] The list below does not include castration (caponization) or ear tags: these occur in (almost) all the species listed.
Mutilatory procedures on animals
- ^ 'Blinders' or 'spectacles' are included as some versions require a pin to pierce the nasal septum.
- ^ 'Desnooding' is the removal of the snood, a fleshy appendage on the forehead of turkeys.
- ^ 'Firing', sometimes called 'pin firing', is a therapy that uses a small, red-hot probe to cause cauterization (burning) of tissue in horses with chronic injuries to produce an abundant, serous inflammatory process.
- ^ 'Tail blocking' involves injecting the major motor nerves of a horse's tail with alcohol to affect the horse's ability to lift, or even move, it's tail.
- ^ 'Tail nicking' in horses involves cutting the retractor muscles below the tail to affect the carriage of the tail. The tail is then placed in a tail set.
- ^ 'Tail nicking' in dogs involves cutting the retractor muscles below the tail to affect the carriage of the tail.
- ^ 'Tail clipping' in mice involves the removal of a section of the tail for tissue required in the development of genetically altered strains.
- ^ 'Toe clipping' in mice involves the full or partial amputation of one or more digits as a means of permanent identification.
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