Anger has erupted at the news that a laboratory in Essex has
been testing wigs on dogs. The testing
of clothing on animals was banned in Europe in 2004 following a number of high
profile cases involving kittens in puffer jackets, hamsters wearing wellington
boots and 'trout trousers'. In this
latest incident the laboratory, owned and operated by rug manufacturer
Wriggley's Wigs, have got around the ban by claiming that the wigs are medical
appliances rather than items of clothing.
Campaigner Paddy Barker of the charity Pets Against
Pullovers, wants this loophole closed.
"There's nothing more shameful than seeing a Basset Hound wearing a
beehive or a Great Dane in dreadlocks,"
she said. "It's a horrifying
reminder of mankind's cruelty to his fellow creatures."
A spokesman for Wriggley's Wigs, however, remained
unrepentant. "The work we are doing
here is vital to so many vain and insecure middle-aged men who are going
prematurely bald. No more will they have
to suffer the horror of a strangely immobile, oddly-coloured toupee. Or, heaven forbid, the shame of the
comically windswept comb-over. And if it
means that an Alsatian has to spend an uncomfortable few minutes in an Afro, or
a Doberman is spotted grinning stupidly whilst wearing pigtails or a blonde
mullet, then I for one think it's worth the sacrifice."
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