RED, the Pomeranian puppy born with both male and female reproductive organs, has a permanent home.
“It’s wonderful. I’m so happy,” said Sharon Blechinger, director of the Helping Every Animal League, a nonprofit support group for the San Bernardino City Animal Shelter.
“I’m so happy for Red,” she said. “He’s going to have a nice home.”
The Press-Enterprise: Group finds home for hermaphrodite dog
Blechinger did not make public the name or home town of Red’s new owner, who she said is shunning attention. The owner did not return telephone calls seeking comment.
Thirteen people from as far away as Maryland and Connecticut applied to adopt the dog. Blechinger said she chose the new owner because she had worked in veterinarians’ offices and has experience with animals.
“She just seemed the right fit,” the HEAL director said. “I met her and she is a very nice person.”
The dog moved into his new home last week.
Red was born with a condition called pseudo male hermaphrodite and was found wandering the streets of San Bernardino.
His condition was so rare that published data do not include an estimated percentage of the pet population that has it. Veterinarians might see it once in a 30-year career, if at all, said San Bernardino veterinarian Marc DiCarlo. In humans, it occurs in three out of 100,000 people.
The dog underwent corrective surgery last month to prevent infection and reduce the risk of developing cancer. Blechinger paid the $1,165 cost of the surgery out of her own pocket.
The dog had been in foster care until he recovered sufficiently to be adopted.
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Editorial comment:
HOW utterly grotesque. A stray dog is discovered to be intersex, is scheduled to be killed simply because it is intersex and a ‘benefactor’ comes to the ‘rescue’ to pay a quack veterinary surgeon to cut up the dog’s genitals in a vain attempt to render it no longer intersex but agreeably ‘normal’ instead.
So now its genitals somewhat resemble those of a male dog. It remains intersex of course. No amount of surgery removes the fact that an intersex dog or intersex human being is intersex. Every cell in intersex bodies remains intersex from birth to death.
Was no thought ever given as to whether the dog would have preferred its genitals to stay as they were?
Was no thought ever given as to whether the dog might have preferred its genitals to more resemble female than male?
And as is the case with intersex human beings whose genitals are forcibly and non-consensually cut up as newborns by self-appointed ‘experts’ desperate to erase any visible evidence that intersex exists and is common in man and beast, the usual lies are trotted out as justifications for all this – that it was done to “prevent infection” and to “reduce the risk of developing cancer.”
Lies, lies, lies and more lies.
Human beings, some of us at any rate, simply cannot stand the fact that difference exists in the world and there is more to people and other animals than 100% male or 100% female.
So they whip out their needles, their knives and their big, big lies and get to work.
Well, at least this story is no longer published under the biggest lie that it first appeared under, that the poor little innocent dog is a ‘transgender’ dog.
Intersex is not transgender, folks. Intersex is intersex.
There is no such thing as man dogs and woman dogs – man and woman being genders. Male and female are sexes. Dogs have a sex, not a gender.
There most certainly are intersex dogs and they should be allowed to stay that way and not be cut up to turn their genitals into some bizarre ideal of 100% male or 100% female.
The people who did this should be charged with animal cruelty.
At the very least they should be ashamed of themselves.
Red should have been allowed to stay as it was and be helped to find a home with people who accept that nature is as it is and that intersex naturally exists amongst man and beast.
So, alas, does IGM – intersex genital mutilation – and that is what was done to Red.
