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04-20-2010, 08:37 PM | #1 |
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| Tails This is what the standard says: Docked to a medium length and carried slightly higher than the level of the back. That's all there is. Let's talk about it. What is gay to you? What is too short/ long to you? A tail cut too long or short, set too high or low, it can throw off a beautiful image. It's under rated IMO. But what it ideal to you? How do you go about getting it from the start? How do you guess the correct size each time? Have you made mistakes? Do you have a dog (or a reference) with a tail that you appreciate? Are tails just "a tail" to you"? by Carolyn Hensley Tail: Be sure to consider both the structure and the carriage of tails. Yorkshire Terriers should possess docked, thick, full-coated tails. The thin or too long, or worse the thin and too short tail detracts significantly from the balance and type. As more breeds ban docking expect more with natural tails in your ring, know the AKC "opinion" on the subject prior to adjudication. Tails should set neither too high nor too low. The high-set tail, often accompanying a flat back and croup, inevitably makes the Yorkie who possesses it carry a gay tail. Under ordinary circumstances, they ought never to stand or move with their tails either between their legs over their bodies |
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04-21-2010, 05:17 AM | #2 | |
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High/lowset Tails - are indicative to me of the set of the sacrum.Posterior tilt downwards gives lowset tail and anterior tilt upwards a high set tail. I don't know the AKC opinion of the subject. Do you have a link to their position statement?
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04-22-2010, 05:59 AM | #3 |
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| A gay tail turns back towards the head, a squirrel tail almost lays on the back. The standard says that the tail is carried slightly higher than the back but it's illustration for a correct tail has the tail at between a 45 and 90 degree angle, quite a bit higher than slightly. Chandler has a fabulous and correct tail set and carriage. I like to see it when the hair is flowing back when in movement but not carried like that of a setter. When I cut tails I measure them by the line of demarcation under the tail, 1/8 inch into the black. I've occasionally gotten one that is a bit longer or shorter as an adult than I would have liked but it's pretty accurate. Tail carriage can be physical (pelvic angle or length of croup) or it can be tempermental. Submissive dogs will often tilt the pelvis and make the set look low. As we see more and more dogs with full tails we may have to breed for gay tails so that the long tails don't end up looking like that of some of the sporting dogs. I prefer a gay tail on a full tailed dog, it looks more balanced to me.
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04-22-2010, 06:37 AM | #4 | |
Mardelin Yorkshire Terriers Donating Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: California
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When docking a tail, I now consider the structure of the dog and adulthood size. My repro vet informed me, that if you measure the tail, by pulling down towards the vaginal or scrotum....and dock at the point where that tail just meets those areas. You will always have a docked tail that is proportioned to the dogs size, therefore a balanced looking dog. I've been using this method and by gosh it's been working every time.
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04-22-2010, 06:58 AM | #5 | |
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Mary, Could you explain this a little more please. I have a litter due any day so there is some "tail docking" in my immediate future. Top of scrotal area?? Top, middle, bottom of vulvar area???? This sounds like a much better method as it seems to take into better consideration the size and structure of the dog, so if you can explain just a little bit better I would appreciate it.
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04-22-2010, 07:45 AM | #6 | |
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I had been docking tails 1/4 to 1/2 inch into the black for a long time....Usually the deciding point was where the tail began to narrow.
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04-22-2010, 07:56 AM | #7 | |
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04-22-2010, 10:29 AM | #8 | |
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Docked to a medium length and carried slightly higher than the level of the back. Last edited by Elle; 04-22-2010 at 10:32 AM. | |
04-22-2010, 10:32 AM | #9 |
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| Tail docking is banned and illegal in Scotland so lily has probably got a much longer tail than most Yorkies although she looks like most Scottish born Yorkies yvonne xx
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