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Originally Posted by alisonJ Are Reasons of hygiene a reason to dock tails? Call me crazy but isn’t it more humane (though less convenient and time consuming obviously!) to wash or clip the hair away from a dog’s bottom than to chop off his tail? If a dog is regularly groomed, healthy and eating good quality food then there shouldn’t be a lot of muck around his bottom anyway.
The RCVS says that faecal soiling is not a disease or injury and so cannot be a justifiable reason for docking a dog. I agree. |
I have one with an undocked tail. Hygiene is no more of a problem than one with a docked tail...they lift the tail out of the way. It is more important to keep the hair trimmed around the rectum. That is were the poo gets stuck.
I don't see why people question this about yorkies. When it comes to hygiene, why would it be any different for yorkies than any other breed? My sister has a Golden Retriever with a long, full tail. No problem with hygiene there either.