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Originally Posted by kezza

http://www.dogtrainingireland.ie/doc...prohibited.pdf

Thanks for posting this.

University of Birmingham Centre for Biomedical Ethics, ‘very young animals are
likely to feel more pain than older animals’6.

A possible explanation for the belief of some dog breeders that puppies feel negligible pain on docking is that
very young puppies may be physically incapable of displaying some of the behaviours that would indicate pain