Owner Dyes Poodle Pink Now Faces Legal Woes
This salon and dog owner must be well versed in correctly and safely using hair dye, as she’s licensed to do so. Compared to what people do to dogs hair as seen in this post about grooming competitions, it’s silly she was fined. Some people dye their dog and get a medal, some dye their dog and get a fine.
This story is so so very contradictory and Coloradan. Miss Fidget considers the adoration and elevation of animals above humans a character flaw. If one is so filled with kindness to kittens and empathy to puppies how about teaching someone to read, or taking magazines to a homeless shelter?
Wanna read a post about a lost dog that turned up pink after traveling hundreds of km down under? Click here.
Boulder’s pink poodle owner preps for legal fight
By Denver Post | 03/11/2008
The Boulder salon owner facing a $1,000 fine for dyeing her poodle pink will have to wait for her day in court, The Daily Camera reports.
This morning Joy Douglas appeared before a judge in Boulder Municipal Court and asked for an extension because she now has an attorney.
The judge granted Douglas’ request and reset her hearing for April 7, the Camera reported.
Douglas, owner of Zing Hair Salon at 1100 Spruce St., received a $1,000 ticket from an animal-control officer for coloring her white poodle, Cici, pink by using organic beet juice.
Douglas spoke at length to The Post on Monday be declined to speak to a Post reporter after her court case this morning.
“We do it to promote awareness of breast cancer,” said Douglas, 30, who has owned the large hair salon for three years. “Cici is a conversation piece. Customers come in and ask why the dog is pink. So we tell them about breast-cancer awareness, about the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, and then we ask for a donation.”
Not everyone who saw pink Cici was pleased, and some customers called the Humane Society of Boulder Valley, whose commissioned officers enforce the city’s animal ordinances. One ordinance prohibits the coloring or dyeing of animals, a law that went into effect about five years ago to discourage families from dyeing rabbits and chicks for Easter.
“We’ve received a number of complaints about the dog,” said Lisa Pedersen, director of the humane society. “We’ve been out to talk with Joy several times. Finally, we gave her a ticket to let the courts decide the issue.”