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Originally Posted by friscomom  oh my god this thread just sank in
people cut off these dog's tails for kicks
despicable |
In England owners of working dogs with tails were charged a tax and in order to avoid the paying the tax...the owners' removed the tail. Even after the tax was repealed they still continued to dock tails.
The breed were originally ratters and having a docked tail meant they were not get bitten nor get it caught on anything going in a burrow.
The YTCA standard still calls for a docked tail