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Originally Posted by BamaFan121s  And most people buying them are looking for a Yorkie that fits the set standard, which calls for a docked tail. Most breeders stive to produce dogs that meet the standard as closely as possible in EVERY aspect.
LOL...when dogs start walking on a tight rope, I'll lobby for them to keep their tails.  For starters, legs/arms are major appendages, tails are not--the two are not comparable. As for if it is 'animal cruelty' or 'mutilation', that is a matter of opinion, not fact. I'm sure it can be quite a tramatic experience for both the pups and anyone witnessing it if someone w/out a clue as to how to properly perform the procedure tries a hand at it. However, if done by someone adequately trained and within the first few days of the pups life before the circulation and nerve development has reached it's full functioning level, the dogs feel little discomfort at all...heck, my last litter didn't even even wake up or flinch and there wasn't even a drop of blood from any of them.
Going against the standard by breeding and keeping the tails is up to each person to make individually. (My suggestion would be pick a dog with a different standard.) I know that I personally would not aim to acquire a dog w/ a docked tail and won't until the standard changes to call for it. Of course, you have unscrupulous breeders breeding out of standard dog every day, so this is just another one to add on the pile. It's funny to me that people get riled up about the 'torture' these pups feel but don't seem to have a problem stomaching the pain and discomfort the bitch goes through during whelping, pregnancy and even the tie process itself. Something in that just doesn't make sense to me.... |
Well I know for a fact that their tail is what helps them balance and I'm willing to bet that my babies with their tails will beat any yorkie without a tail in an agility contest, Blaine and Charlie were in agility classes and blaine who was well trained did not outdo charlie who was a newbie, Charlie was faster, jumped twice as high than blaine and had better control in turning to go to the next obstacle, when I asked the trainer how come Charlie was faster and jumped higher than blaine even though they are exactly the same size the trainer told me because Charlie has a tail, ASK YOUR VET, what the tail is for, some vets don't even do tail docking no matter how old the pup is, my vet definitely won't do it.
And keeping the tails isn't going against the standard, why is a dock tail the standard because AKC said so, who are they??? Nobody but another organization that makes up their own rules as to what is exceptable or not, their are a thousand different organizations and they all don't agree that docking the tails is standard, it is mutilation no matter how you look at it, they are born with tails you take their tails from them no matter how you look at that it is MUTILATION!!! ANIMAL CRUELY JUST FOR A LOOK!!! HAHAHA now that doesn't make sense! I say AKC got it wrong. I for one would not buy any animal with a docked tail, if I knew the breeder I bought Sabrina and Blaine from docked tails I would have never purchased my babies from her, that was just one of the questions I forgot to ask the breeder but I know better next time. Just like all of these pitbull and rottweiler owners docking tails and ears it's just ridiculous and I for one am not a supporter of docked tails!!!
for UKC for banning the docking of tails.