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Originally Posted by livingdustmops  No this is not true..
There are a couple of theories out there but one is before the turn of the century owners were taxed on the length of their dogs...so they removed the tail...another is it was one way to pull the dog out of holes as they were ratters and there could be even more theories but I quarantee it wasn't because they knocked things off of tables 
PS. I love long tails |
Wow, I didn't know that! That's interesting.
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Originally Posted by Rhetts_mama I'm personally not a fan of docking any dog's tail. They just look so much cuter with it waving in excitement. I would love to see the AKC revise all their standards to reflect the lack of need for tail docking. I understand the initial reason behind it; rats grab on to anything long and defenseless so the tails were docked to prevent injury to the dogs doing their job. But since we don't use them that way any more, why should we still be doing it?
Can you imagine the uproar if the Miss America Pagent started requiring that all their contestants lob off one boob? |
LOL, that last comment made me laugh. But I agree with you.