I like an undocked tail because it is cute and because I hate to think of the pain these little babies go through when it's docked, all for someone else's idea of what "looks" better, i.e., the breed standard. Docking is illegal in a lot of countries and considered animal cruelty.
It is not my intention to offend anyone, especially the wonderful breeders on this forum that I respect greatly, but I know that the Biewer Yorkie in Germany has an undocked tail because a docked tail is against the breed standard there. There is some controversy over that here I think. Not sure. maybe Yorkie Rose could elaborate. She is way more knowledgeable than me on this.
I took Hefner to a yorkie playgroup here yesterday and there were several dogs with undocked tails and they are very pretty. I was ignorant about this whole tail docking issue until reading about Biewers and both my puppies have docked tails. Chai barely has anything!! I think a lot of people don't realize the tails are docked when the babies are a couple of days old. They just think it happens that way naturally, i.e, they have short tails. I would love to learn more if anyone has a good resource on this subject.
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