Puppy gets life-saving gender reassignment surgery

[RamboLiberal]

A Pomeranian puppy born with partially formed male and female reproductive organs has been saved from euthanasia after undergoing gender reassignment surgery.

Red the Pomeranian would have been put to sleep, but a woman donated the $1,100 needed to pay for the lifesaving surgery.

"I just felt he was a very adoptable dog," Sharon Blechinger, director of the Helping Every Animal League, told The Press-Enterprise of Riverside, Calif.

Red was taken into the shelter after he was found roaming the streets in San Bernardino. Genetically male, a shelter supervisor says Red was born with partially formed male and female organs.

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/08/09/Gender_Reassignment_Surgery_Saves_Dog/

[woo me with science]

1. I dare you to post this at Free Republic.

:rofl:

[IndianaGreen]

2. Was this dog going to be euthanized just because it was intersexed?

Intersexed children are mutilated shortly after birth with horrible consequences when they get older. Sexual identity is hard wired into the brain and has nothing to do with sex organs.

[jmowreader]

5. I'm thinking it was one of two things...

The shelter looked at the back of this dog and thought, "no one is going to adopt a dog like that, and we need kennel space for dogs we can adopt out." Which is strange, because dust mops with legs like this one are pretty popular.

Or...the dog's "partially formed" penis made it hard for him to pee right.

[Morning Dew]

6. This article

says the surgery was needed to prevent infection and reduce the risk of cancer.

http://www.pe.com/localnews/stories/PE_News_Local_D_nb10_dog.1216225.html

For real or not... I dunno.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

3. K&R unreal

[asdjrocky]

4. Some people wait a lifetime to write a headline like that, and it never comes. nt

[ensho]

7. see, man made hormones are messing up dogs, frogs, fish, man and

probably cats

[kestrel91316]

8. Those sorts of abnormalities predate our chemicalized world.

[ensho]

10. but now the % of abnormalities are way higher then normal

man made hormones are changing the whole world of living things

the tipping point tipped

[roguevalley]

9. my niece has a dachsie that has this problem. Daisy.

[Evasporque]

11. arf arf...

I am dog...arf

arf arf...