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Originally Posted by kezza

If you look at the Advocates for Animals website i posted earlier in this thread it shows evidence of bad tail docking and the sad case of 11 puppies that died due to their tails being cut off with a Stanley Knife..even cases of people trying to dock Adult dogs tails!! these barbaric acts would not happen if Tail Docking were banned.

You say that tails should be docked to prevent injury later in life..most dogs go through life without tail injury..legs can be broken later in life too but we are not amputating them in case of injury..wild dogs, foxes, wolves are canine and go through life perfectly well with an intact tail.

Like I said, tail docking is so easy...for someone to mess it up so bad to kill 11 puppies would seriously take someone of lower mentality.. There are a few methods to dock tails, and I've seen two ways. I've seen the clamp (with hemostat) and twist method (not bloody at all), and I've seen the tail cut off and stitched (a little bloody but not bad at all). I just can't imagine how someone could mess that up so bad to kill a whole litter of dogs... So far as people docking adult dogs themselves, I'm pretty positive that is considered animal cruelty just like it would be cropping the ears yourself. With an adult, it becomes a surgical procedure, which requires a licensed vet to do it.

I saw a report about incidence of tails breaking and how it has gone up quite a bit since docking was outlawed...I remember reading it on a past thread on YT. The tail would break much easier than a leg and has a lot higher risk of getting caught in something, especially with the skinny tail of the Yorkie.