You can use depilatory cream just about everywhere on your body, provided that you are not sensitive to the chemicals and use the right hair removal cream in the right place, but I heard a new use for the stuff today which made me think that the world has gone a bit mad.

If you had a dog would you be beautifying it by using mascara and lipstick and removing hair which didn’t conform to the exact idea of dog beauty for your particular breed with Veet or Nair hair removal cream? I didn’t think so but apparently some owners are barking (!) mad enough to do so with the result that the top dog show in the UK has had to put out a warning that depilatory cream may not be used on dogs.

See this article from the Daily Telegraph.

What gets me is how they stop the dog removing the product before the time is up. I have a hard enough job, getting impatient standing around in the bathroom for what seems like an age (even though it is only a few minutes) while a depilatory lotion gets to work never mind a poor animal.

Now I know we suffer in the name of beauty and we can go to extremes burning off our unwanted hair with chemicals, and pulling it out by the roots with wax, but this is no way to treat our pets even if we don’t mind suffering ourselves in the name of beauty.

The beauty world got going on our men folk not too many years ago with Veet for men. Surely there will never be a Veet for dogs!