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To Ralph Liberatore, the thought of having his miniature pinscher Butch n eutered was painful. "How is he going to be looked at by the other dogs in the dog world?" Then he heard about Neuticles - testicular implants made of silicone that would make Butch look like Butch again. Since Neuticles hit the market, nearly 150,000 pairs have been sold.
Liberatore says support for the gems are split right down the middle. two reactions would be 'eeeew,' or, 'He doesn't know any dif ferent,'" says Liberatore. Like their owners, pets are getting all type s of cosmetic surgery - breast reductions, eyelifts, and even fat remova l Most of these procedures are medically necessary; Pumpkin could hardly walk until she had 5 pounds of fat surgically remove d "She's much thinner," says Pumpkin's owner Jessie Schultz. A hanging lip - prone to infect ion - was nipped and tucked for cosmetic and medical reasons. "Cosmetically it just looks so much better so a little bit of each, and i t's no big deal," says Dye. Liberatore admits neuticles are more about him than Butch. What is it about you guys that think you need to replace these things on an animal? "A guy that has them, knows wha t they are and what they mean, and taking them away is very bad. He says pet owners are taking America's obsess ion with perfection too far. "I think the money would be better spent if the person who wanted these i mplants went to therapy," says Schulman. But Liberatore says he's pleased that Butch looks like a complete "packag e" again. It leaves us to wonder if there are any limits to the cosmetic surgery ph enomenon, or have we all simply gone nuts?
In the last installment of CBS News' Beautiful World series, Mika Brz ezinski looks beyond the human race. It turns out people will go to grea t lengths to keep their pets pretty.
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