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Originally Posted by YorkieRose I do not know anyone who does it now, but I used to have several breeder friends who debarked all their dogs.
One bred Maltese and I kept 8 while she was traveling once. They were wonderful to board...it was funny to watch mine come up to the playyards and bark at them..they barked back, but no sound..it confused my Yorkies and they would walk away.
I am not infavor of it, but understand why it is done. I have had 3 who were debarked....one wind up with a hoarse sound, the other two could bark but they sounded like they were in the back yard barking instead of in the house.
I solved my problem by breeding from Yorkies who rarely barked and placing the loud mouth, trouble makers as pets...they do well not being in groups..which tended to make mine worse. They liked to indulge in competive bark offs. |
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