Gelisim News

Do not do it to your pets!

The craziness pertaining to the dying the hair of dogs and cats turned out to be a trend worldwide in recent years. Prof. Dr. Rıfat Mutuş, who made an explanation about the matter, indicated that the use of dye products on animals may cause serious health problems, even further the death as well.

The pets with their hair dyed by their owners, who want to distract attention, are frequently seen at streets. This treatment, made entirely towards the discretionary and visual anxieties of people with the effects of social media sharings, has serious negative effects on the animals. The use of these products on the animals may be causing the occurrence of serious health problems such as allergy, poisoning and changes in behaviours and even the deaths of them as well.      

DYES HAVE TOXIC EFFECT

Prof. Dr. Rıfat Mutuş, who is the Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Istanbul Gelisim University (IGU) and indicated that the dye products, produced for people, have negative consequences for the animals, further said that ‘’ The contact of these products with the animal skin may cause various types of skin problems such as irritation, itching, burning and so on. Nevertheless, it may cause digestive system problems where the symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhoea and so on, as a result of toxic effects of the dyes following the licking by dogs and cats of their hair.’’ and also indicated that the sense of smell of animals are developed very well and distinguish even the smells at low-density.’’       

NATURAL SMELL OF ANIMALS IS NOT TO BE SUPPRESSED

It is necessary to abstain from the behaviours that will spoil the natural structure of animals through the use of aesthetical materials, designed for the people, over the pets. Mr. Mutuş, who indicated that the materials so used may affect the behaviours of the animals by creating toxic effect on them, further said: ‘’The sense of smell takes up a role at the first degree in animals at structuring the emotional behaviours. As a consequence, the use of dyes having a certain aroma that will suppress the natural smells of animals may cause abnormal changes in the behaviours of animals.’’