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Originally Posted by Wylie's Mom  Nanc - I don't know if you saw my post just above your article post...but I was asking in that post if anyone had some good articles on the pro-docking side so that if we put something in the library about it, we'd have articles on both sides of the convo. Do you think the articles you found would be good ones to use for that? Thanks for spending the time in getting the info. (and thanks to Concretegurl too, who found the other 2 articles) |
No I didn't see it. I'm not sure if they are good or not. You need someone with more expertise than I have to tell you the faults of the articles, but they don’t seem to be blatantly biased. These have been linked on other YT threads, I didn't search them down. By the way, I’m not sure anyone is “pro docking” any more than someone is pro-abortion, it’s more about choice, and what’s best for the breed overall. In my opinion, saying it’s amputation seem to be a gross exaggeration. Cutting the skinny tip isn’t amputation, but if a dog breaks the tail, since tails don’t heal well, sometimes they do have to amputate the complete tail as well as butt muscle. I haven’t done that much research on the issue, and I believe as Loraine said they are still getting information from the European clubs on the long term effect of not docking anymore. Bottom line though, is I believe we should support the breed clubs. Anytime we make it harder for reputable breeders to breed, we are effectively killing the breed. Once true dog fanciers are out of the picture, all that will be left are people breeding for the money.