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A Dozen Camels Disqualified From Saudi Beauty Pageant Over Botox Injections

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A Dozen Camels Disqualified From Saudi Beauty Pageant Over Botox Injections

NPR
LAUREL WAMSLEY
January 24, 2018

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo...are&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social


Some pageant contestants hit a hump in the road this week. That is, a camel beauty contest in Saudi Arabia disqualified a dozen camels for receiving Botox injections to make them more attractive.

Saudi media reported that a veterinarian was caught performing plastic surgery on the camels a few days before the pageant, according to UAE's The National. In addition to the injections, the clinic was surgically reducing the size of the animals' ears to make them appear more delicate.

"They use Botox for the lips, the nose, the upper lips, the lower lips and even the jaw," Ali Al Mazrouei, a regular at such festivals and the son of a prominent Emirati breeder, told the newspaper. "It makes the head more inflated so when the camel comes it's like, 'Oh look at how big that head is. It has big lips, a big nose.' "

Real money is at stake: About $57 million is awarded to winners of the contests and camel races, The National reports, with more than $31.8 million in prizes for just the pageants.

The festival provides a number of informative graphics about camels, including a diagram titled Standards of Camel Beauty. It is sadly unspecific about what makes for handsome nostrils and withers, though it does mention a "leathery mouth."

Among regulations about the age, breeding and teething of the dromedaries, contest rules say "n case of fraud to change the natural form of participating camels, the participant shall be excluded immediately" – with violators banned from this year's contest and the next five sessions of the festival, along with possible legal penalties for violating the kingdom's animal welfare laws.

Camel owner Ali Obaid told The National that cheaters will get creative to get an edge and will alter an animal's appearance for months before it's sold to a buyer.

"For example they start to pull the lips of the camel, they pull it by hand like this every day to make it longer," he explained to the newspaper. "Secondly, they use hormones to make it more muscular and Botox makes the head bigger and bigger. Everyone wants to be a winner."

The beauty contest, launched in 2000, is a centerpiece of the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival. Last year, authorities moved the festival from a remote location in the desert to a site an hour and a half from Riyadh, and this year attendance has increased by a third, according to Reuters.

"The camel," the chief judge of the show, Fawzan al-Madi, told the newswire, "is a symbol of Saudi Arabia. We used to preserve it out of necessity, now we preserve it as a pastime."
 

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EastTexFrank

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There's only one thing that you can do to beautify a camel ... shoot it. I had one spit at me and try to bit me when I was in Egypt. Nasty animals.
 

jwstewar

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I know we are all getting a good laugh at it, but is it really all that different than the cheaters do here in the US? I know horse and cows have it as well, but we show dairy and meat goats. Don't hear about a ton of it in the dairy world, but in the meat goat world they will inject oxygen under the skin, spray them with a product called Cool Brace that causes muscles to tense up, they will beat them before hand or ice them down as well. Hell, last year I saw a guy squirting the Cool Brace up a goat's ass to tense it up - and that is for a show with no prize money other than "selling." I went to the barn superintendents, the Extension Coordinator, and also the Director of the Ohio Dept. of Agriculture - while he was appalled about it, nothing became of it either.
 

Doc

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Hot stuff. ....should we move these hotties to the adult section. :yum:
 
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