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Originally Posted by Britster  I am not really for nor against it as a whole. Personally. I don't like docking. But I understand why breeders want the right to choose.
But I think to say that a yorkie has the potential to go after a mouse and break their tail and using that as an excuse as to why tail docking is the best option... is like saying "the chance of my yorkie jumping off the couch and breaking it's leg probably will happen in it's life time... so I'm going to amputate it's legs". May be extreme but it's just how I feel. To use what MAY happen as a reason for docking... just seems a bit silly. Lots of things can happen, but we don't prematurely get rid of it. However if a dog is working around vermin all day, as a working dog, then YES I do understand. As the chances are going to much higher for injury than a pet dog.
I can understand why some prefer the look of a docked tail as well. I have no issues with people who have a preference!
I am not sure I necessarily agree with the banning of tail docking... because then what ELSE are they going to control? Ya know? But it still doesn't mean I like it  |
Human boys are circumcised every hour of every day all over the world because one day one of them may get an infection. Same principle for those that believe in every ounce of prevention they can get for their dog. I'm genuinely one of those - I'm a born worry wart. Every thing I can do to prevent illness or injury that is considered a negligible procedure at the time it is done in the earliest infancy, is far worth it to me over the chance of injury. That is my
honest first reason for wanting tails docked, dew claws removed. I have no other axe to grind about hiding my reasons. Truly. And I am not shy about it!
Aesthetically, I prefer a docked tail Yorkshire Terrier but also enjoy the look of the tail, though I'll admit it kind of worries me to see one. Can't help it - I'm that type when it comes to a dog. There have always been others like me over the years or they never would have begun docking tails/dews as a preventative measure. Tibbe is no different from Yorkies of old - given the chance he would chase prey through, under, around, over, under whatever was in his way to get to it - tail and other dangling parts be darned - and I know that about him and other Yorkies - which is why I'm glad he has lesser trailing parts to injure.
I know some don't believe it or cannot accept it, but from the days of old to the present many people
do worry about whatever the small incidence of injury there is and consider it unacceptable if there is anything at all that can be done early on to prevent it. And, thankfully, there is! I, and all those others before me, am among those that believe in any potential early injury prevention step we can take. It's the same reason I rushed myself out to get a swine flu vaccine a few years back. I knew my chances as a healthy person of getting it in a country this size with so few relative cases were miniscule, but I didn't want any risk if there was one small thing I could do to cut down on the worry. Silly or not to some, that is how many feel and have felt for generations about tail docking. Sometimes when one cannot accept others' positions as being genuine and heartfelt, no matter what they say or how often they say it, maybe an opening up and tolerating that view or belief that they might not understand as meritorious could be considered.