How long has this method been around? You know, until I came to this board I had never heard of it. I watched several docking video's on youtube and I would never do that method of removing tails. I think the twisting takes to long for one thing. I also noticed many of them don't wait after they clamp, they just start twisting.
I did noticed with all types of docking the yorkies seem to fuss less then other breeds, what do you all think about that? Coincidence? Interesting anyhow.
Here is a link to a video of a method I will NEVER agree with. Even before I saw this video I knew of the banding and have always been 100% against it.
And you will see 1 reason I am against it about half way through the video.
Another thing I don't like is when a vet stitches the end of the docked tail and the dewclaws after removal. My vet, and the other vets in his clinic do it this way. Once I went in and asked that they not do that any more. So he used surgical glue and they healed up fine and no screaming their heads off while he did each stitch. Now my vet only uses the glue;-)
When I would do it myself I never used glue I only used kwik stop