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post #31 of 45
10/1/10 at 10:04am
I don't know...I kind of think that painting a cats nails would be far more traumatizing than a bath with some food coloring. At least for my cat because he absolutely would not like his feet to be played with so extensively.

To the cat I'm sure the bath was no different than any other bath. I'm sure it does not know it is pink now. I think we are all ready to try and hang this poor girl because of some silly juvenile thing she did. As if we all haven't ever made a mistake with our animals the the past.

While I don't think it was really okay to dye her cat pink, I'm also the kind of person who doesn't really think its okay to dress up animals in frilly pink tutu's just because you're a vain owner and you want to have the prettiest pet on the block. I also don't agree with painting animal's nails.

With so much real animal cruelty in the world it seems a bit silly and mundane to be focusing so much on one owner's silly mistake.
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post #32 of 45
10/1/10 at 11:30am
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Originally Posted by Nekomania View Post
I don't know...I kind of think that painting a cats nails would be far more traumatizing than a bath with some food coloring. At least for my cat because he absolutely would not like his feet to be played with so extensively.

To the cat I'm sure the bath was no different than any other bath. I'm sure it does not know it is pink now. I think we are all ready to try and hang this poor girl because of some silly juvenile thing she did. As if we all haven't ever made a mistake with our animals the the past.

While I don't think it was really okay to dye her cat pink, I'm also the kind of person who doesn't really think its okay to dress up animals in frilly pink tutu's just because you're a vain owner and you want to have the prettiest pet on the block. I also don't agree with painting animal's nails.

With so much real animal cruelty in the world it seems a bit silly and mundane to be focusing so much on one owner's silly mistake.

We are merely expressing opinions here. I don't think anyone wants to hang her. In the scheme of so much meaness of all kinds going on everywhere, this truly seems insignificant.
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post #33 of 45
10/1/10 at 11:30am
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Originally Posted by Nekomania View Post
I don't know...I kind of think that painting a cats nails would be far more traumatizing than a bath with some food coloring. At least for my cat because he absolutely would not like his feet to be played with so extensively.

To the cat I'm sure the bath was no different than any other bath. I'm sure it does not know it is pink now. I think we are all ready to try and hang this poor girl because of some silly juvenile thing she did. As if we all haven't ever made a mistake with our animals the the past.

While I don't think it was really okay to dye her cat pink, I'm also the kind of person who doesn't really think its okay to dress up animals in frilly pink tutu's just because you're a vain owner and you want to have the prettiest pet on the block. I also don't agree with painting animal's nails.

With so much real animal cruelty in the world it seems a bit silly and mundane to be focusing so much on one owner's silly mistake.
I loathe animals dressed up, LOL! (and claw painting too. Nail polish is pretty toxic isn't it? It sure stinks enough)

It's not the 'one silly mistake' that concerns me. It's what that one act may lead to next. Not to mention what she's teaching her kids.
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post #34 of 45
10/1/10 at 12:01pm
I think there has to be a line drawn somewhere, at which point we (people, agencies, gov't, etc.) stop meddling in other people's business. Stop telling them how to raise their children, how to look, how to act, how to take care of their pets.
This whole coloring of the cat business and the outrage it has spawned is yet another example of exorbitant meddling. Suggestions to ban this woman from owning pets ever again are really, imo, extreme to say the least.

PeTA and the like just love the attention these stories get as they inch their way closer to their goal. Which is that no one has a pet ever again.
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post #35 of 45
10/1/10 at 8:41pm
While I don't agree with her dying her cat pink, I do think that she should be able to have the cat back as she actually cared for it and wants it back. There are so many uncared for cats that if an owner really does love their pet and had a lapse in judgment that was harmless, they should be able to learn from it, move on, and continue to take care of their pet.

I do think it's setting a bad example for her kids also.

A girl in HS with me dyed her cat purple. I don't know how, but I thought it was pretty darn weird then too. The thought of dying a pet never has crossed my mind.
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post #36 of 45
10/1/10 at 9:09pm
i dont see a problem with it if it was harmless dye. SOme people do bath their cats. I would not die my cat but I dont see anything wrong with it. There are way way way to many abused animals out there to worry about this and this is just not worth the time and energy. I would rather them look into someone who is really abusing animals and spend the time to look for them then look into this girl.
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post #37 of 45
10/2/10 at 10:30am
The woman is a liar; she did not use red food coloring. She used the same hair dye on the cat as she did on her hair.

If food coloring had been used, the kitty's fur would have red splotches. NO WAY would it be evenly pink! I wonder what else this woman is lying about.

(BTW food coloring contains mercury and lead; supposedly in small enough amounts to not be harmful to humans, although precisely what amount is harmful is not known.)

It's pretty amazing how the mainstream media pumps out these kinds of stories to distract us from the real atrocities being committed in the world right now.
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post #38 of 45
10/2/10 at 10:32am
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Originally Posted by SwampWitch View Post
(BTW food coloring contains mercury and lead; supposedly in small enough amounts to not be harmful to humans, although precisely what amount is harmful is not known.).
Does red 40? It is used in many pet foods.
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post #39 of 45
10/2/10 at 11:12am
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Originally Posted by SwampWitch View Post
The woman is a liar; she did not use red food coloring. She used the same hair dye on the cat as she did on her hair.

If food coloring had been used, the kitty's fur would have red splotches. NO WAY would it be evenly pink! I wonder what else this woman is lying about.

(BTW food coloring contains mercury and lead; supposedly in small enough amounts to not be harmful to humans, although precisely what amount is harmful is not known.)

It's pretty amazing how the mainstream media pumps out these kinds of stories to distract us from the real atrocities being committed in the world right now.
Wow, can this be proved?As if it could then this is a different matter and very bad, she should be punished, I don't trust many hair dyes I use myself but hey if I go all puffy and blotchy then thats my own fault for putting it on, I would never subject an animal to it. x
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post #40 of 45
10/3/10 at 9:21am
Food coloring doesn't dye hair. It might grab on to places in the hair that are very dry, but would not last (especially red). The woman used a product like Manic Panic which claims to be non-toxic but includes toxic ingredients like Methylparaben and of course, artificial colors.

If you put red food coloring on white hair, you will have white hair with possibly some red splotches that wash/rinse out fast. NO WAY would you get evenly pink hair.
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post #41 of 45
10/3/10 at 11:00am
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Originally Posted by SwampWitch View Post

If you put red food coloring on white hair, you will have white hair with possibly some red splotches that wash/rinse out fast. NO WAY would you get evenly pink hair.
I don't know if this is true or false. Have you tested this out? How do you come by this knowledge?
Just curious because it's quite a strong claim you're making.
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post #42 of 45
10/3/10 at 11:20am
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Originally Posted by Kai Bengals View Post
I don't know if this is true or false. Have you tested this out? How do you come by this knowledge?
Just curious because it's quite a strong claim you're making.
I agree and wouldn't the RSPCA be able to do some kind of test, I am not doubting your claims Swampwitch but if this is the case then that is a different matter. x
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post #43 of 45
10/3/10 at 5:09pm
Judging from the photos and my own experience using food coloring to dye hair, I'd say she used food coloring to dye the cat.
Her own hair appears to be Manic Panic or Punky Color.

I've dyed my niece's very healthy platinum hair on many occasions using food coloring and the result was pale like the cat, but very even, not blotchy at all.
It does blotch if applied to dry hair and can only be used with any success of wet hair.

If she did indeed use food coloring, the color will come out in about three washes.

Still, a very silly thing to do to her cat for the sake of vanity, ranks right up there with women who get small dogs to carry arround as fashion accessories.
Not terrible enough to warrant such overreaction though.
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post #44 of 45
10/4/10 at 9:03am
There are different ways to mix color; one is with pigments and another is with light. For example, if you mix yellow and purple pigments, you will get a neutral color (brownish or greyish). If you mix yellow and purple lights, you get white light.

Coloring hair is somewhere in between pigment and light. You can't put red pigment on white hair and get pink. You can mix red pigment with white pigment to get pink, though, and then put it on the hair. If you use red food color on white hair, you will get a light red (faded or washed-out-looking red) IF it sticks at all (doubtful).

The woman said she used red food coloring (and somehow got a very pretty pink just like her hair) and the news story stated that the color will have to grow out. That is not consistent with putting food coloring on hair. Food coloring will NOT stick to healthy hair.

Lots of people dye their dogs' hair. I personally think it is dumb, but again this news story is simply a distraction by the media, so we don't concern ourselves with "real" news.
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post #45 of 45
10/4/10 at 1:30pm
Looking at the pics again., I say its food coloring - not real dye. And yes it would take a few weeks to come out of the fur. When our son used the koolaid on the cats at Easter, it was a few weeks before it was all washed out.
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