 about docking---great question !!!!
Personally, I don't like docking and lately only do it under pressure when I think a litter is highly likely to produce a show prospect. Since I also don't particularly care for showing, I may stop doing that too...Last trip to the vet those puppies cried and bled and I swore I'd never dock again. You can show before most US judges with undocked tails, but brace yourself for a lot of grief from breeders who are stubbornly clinging to the notion that the tail spoils the whole look of the dog---can't remember the exact way I alst heard it put...Anyway, it is barbaric and illegal in most civilized countries. |