[yorkieusa]

I don't really know if it is cruel. I would not want to leave the dew claws because of the dangers of them catching on something and causing injury. I would google everything I could find about the tail docking at a later age, since most are done within the first few days to see if there is any problems that other people have had when having it done later. I wish you luck. It's too bad about the miscommunication.