PetSpa Update – The Company Responds

10 02 2007

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Well, the video I posted earlier this week has been removed by request of the manufacturer. They feel this is unrepresentitive of their product and have asked youtube to take all copies down. Here is the article for your read on their product. I especially love how they show humans in there to show how safe it is… Of course it’s safe for a human! They know what is about to happen!

Of interest though, is PETA’s response, so I would say the answer would be NO, it’s nto PETA approved:

“PETA thinks this hideous contraption belongs in a litter box, where every cat we know would gladly cover it up with sand. Cats need our companionship inside our homes: a window seat, lots of food and plenty of love – not to be shoved into a terrifying and claustrophobic water-soaked machine devised by some cat-loathing, profit-hungry jerks,” Lisa Lange, senior vice president of PETA, said in an email.

Andres Diaz, one of the inventors of PetSpa insists that this is more humane than many other methods of bathing an animal. He says that the cat used in the video is not indicitive of the type of animal that should be put in there. He says that cat should have been sedated and washed by a trained veterinarian.

I am sorry Diaz, but having many cats over the years and seeing how they have reacted to getting wet… I have yet to see any cat that would not react the same way in that machine as the one in the video! I still stand by the fact that it is not a humane way to take care of your pet!