Lawmakers in Rio de Janeiro has approved a draft legislation for banning cosmetic surgery of dogs and cats.
Rio de Janeiro: Lawmakers in Rio de Janeiro has approved a draft legislation for banning cosmetic surgery of dogs and cats.
Grace Pereira, Conservative lawmaker is behind the move to ban procedures such as tail docking, cutting off an animal's tail and removal of cat claws, as well as ear cropping for dogs.
In July, Brazil's National Council of Veterinary medicine published a resolution in its official journal urging such procedures be made illegal and that vets performing them be struck off the register.
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