Dirty jobs great show but wrong.

OMG I love this show but I just saw the episode where they are castrating lambs. I strongly recommend not watching this episode its just wrong. They use their mouths to castrate the lambs. I just thought I would share :O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke:

What do you mean use their mouths??!

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Originally Posted by AmandaTolleson

What do you mean use their mouths??!

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I saw the episode tonight also.

They bite down on the lambs testicles to get a grip and pull them out with their teeth. It's kind of like when you're trying to get the plastic off a new CD or something and you bite down and pull the plastic off. I can't imagine how much pain they were in.

That is standard practice in the industry...

It has been for a LONG time.

I saw it being done in college in an Ag Class.

Yeah, but come on...just because something is done traditionally doesn't mean it should be done. I think it should fall under animal cruelty laws, myself.

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Originally Posted by LadyOhh

That is standard practice in the industry...

It has been for a LONG time.

I saw it being done in college in an Ag Class.

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Are you talking about the PERSON's MOUTH?....that is gross!

i thought it was TERRIBLE! I thought it was very abusive... just to save a couple bucks GROSS

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Originally Posted by sg1trogdor

OMG I love this show but I just saw the episode where they are castrating lambs. I strongly recommend not watching this episode its just wrong. They use their mouths to castrate the lambs. I just thought I would share :O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke:

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What makes it worse is afterward they deep fried and ate them!!!! :puke2:

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Originally Posted by ADEE

i thought it was TERRIBLE! I thought it was very abusive... just to save a couple bucks GROSS

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the guy said that it takes longer and more stressful when the tool is used. so its better for the animal. not sayin its not gross but when it comes to what keeps this planet going there are alot of gross things that id perfer not to do, and he seems to wanna do them all

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Originally Posted by LarryPetty

What makes it worse is afterward they deep fried and ate them!!!! :puke2:

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The things people do never cease to amaze me. My previous boss used to have a farm and he said that they used to let the pigs in through a doorframe, and then slam the door really hard as they were almost through to castrate them (don't ask me the specifics because I just remember being utterly horrified that this was being done to any living creature). He said it was the least painful way to do it. I did ask him if he were to be castrated what his chosen method would be, but he declined to respond.

Anyway, I definitely do not care to watch this in action. :bleh:

That is absolutely disgusting! (I couldn't find a barf-face, but I would definatley use it here)

I'm glad I missed this episode.. I love dirty jobs but thats just gross

Thats nasty:O

I remember reading in Errol Flynn's biography many years ago that he once did that for a living before he became famous.

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=375251

I thought it was a pretty good show, i watched it again last night, best part is when he bit threw it the looks on his face ( priceless)

umm disgusting :O...the show is alright, i enjoyed the snake wrangler episode a lot...but that guy from the show is friggin annoying

Why is it gross? Clean skin is clean skin. Once your able to see past the innuendos you'll find there's nothing particulary gross about it. I am not going to comment one way or the other as towards cruelty to the animal. But, It's just flesh, if you were any other carnivore in the animal kingdom you'd be happy to be in that position, rather than "sheepishly" cowering at the connotations of mouth placement...

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Originally Posted by Gooseman

Why is it gross? Clean skin is clean skin. Once your able to see past the innuendos you'll find there's nothing particulary gross about it. I am not going to comment one way or the other as towards cruelty to the animal. But, It's just flesh, if you were any other carnivore in the animal kingdom you'd be happy to be in that position, rather than "sheepishly" cowering at the connotations of mouth placement...

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Thank you, I was going to say something along those lines when I posted if no one else had said it.

There is hardly anything gross about it. What society tells us is wrong though, makes it a disgusting process. I actually find it interesting and unique. From reading LadyOhh's link, I believe that the method could be a relatively humane procedure, considering they use a knife, as human teeth are not capable of that.

Theres not a whole lot of difference in a vet's office, except a sterile environment, which would not probably happen with a large animal vet anyway as most of their treatment is done in a barn/stable of some sort.