Naughty by Nature.

Question: Has the world gone mad!? China has jumped on a pet trend, which I assume started in America, and has run (completely) wild with it.

Whilst I was in America and indulging in my guilty pleasure, trashy reality TV, I saw that Audrey O'day dyed her miniature Maltese dogs. I thought she was a little, you know, over the top with the pet pampering but just brushed it off as celebrity ga-ga... little did I know that East Asia was embracing the trend and going one step further.

Check these furry friends out. These [admittedly gooorgeous] baby pandas are actually dyed Chow Chow dogs:

This from a country where just 10 years ago they raised dogs on farms specially for their dog meat which was then fed to restaurant customers.

You think this is slightly crazy? Well get a load of this; Berlin (which I wouldn't have associated with mad trends) is tattooing pigs! Yes, you read it right, but don't worry (too much) they are sedated during the process. Whereas the dogs were pretty cute, this is just downright twisted. Yet again China has taken on the trend and ran (...and ran...and ran) with it, and are now tattooing goldfish! God-knows how but they are and these little fellows are thought to return lost luck..... Riiight.

Pets have long since been subjected to consumerist folly, by being shoved into Louis V bags or garish outfits, but these semi-permanent and permanent 'designs' hold a pretty sick future for domestic and wild animals. Meet the Papilio Nike-Ulysees:

It's a genetically modified butterfly that has been branded with a Nike sign. I mean, really... Does our capitalist, technological world know no boundaries?!

Truely disturbed,