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Originally Posted by Wylie's Mom  I hear you on the desire for empirical long-term studies, but I'm curious why you wouldn't want those before allowing their tail to be amputated (and claws, ears etc)? As a nurse, we always look for studies to prove you *should* perform a surgery or any intervention that alters the body...instead of doing the surgery automatically and keep doing it until there are studies in the future to show you shouldn't do it. Do you know what I mean? In the medical field, if we removed body parts or did other permanent alterations as part of preventive medicine *without proof*...holy heck... the whole field would be in prison. Me included  ! |
Although the comparisons to human medical studies/evidence is absolutely correct, the difference here is that dogs are still chattle -- property. So the same rules will never apply no matter how much pain a puppy must tolerate.
People can do to whatever they want to a given breed. Change is slow. People fear change.
It won't take a study to change the rules. It will just take time.