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Originally Posted by luvlee  The "injury", if you will, is the initial trauma, insult, assault to the body of a living creature - the cut of the tail. As I previously mentioned, yorkies can't complain if the 'snip' results in nerve damage, infection, fear, stress, brainwave changes/alterations, or whatever else could happen when WE interfere with other LIFE forms.
I have no problem with alteration as a means of PREVENTION, ie, when Yorkies were actually working dogs in mills with machinery that could catch a wayward tail. Yet, I strongly feel that the docking alteration AT THIS TIME is irrelevant to the breed.
Maybe breeders (well meaning, reputable and overall good) fear that their lines would be sacrificed if some other body (ie the AKC) decides that the length of the tails in their lines are too long, short, ugly or whatever.
I feel badly for the breeders. However, that can not be the reason to preserve a barbaric and outdated practice that fails to serve a useful purpose.
Like I said, I bet the imperical data will show that amount of long term tail injury after a docking ban is MINIMAL compared to sparing the entire Yorkshire Terrier breed from the unnecessary harm, pain & injury caused BY the docking process itself. Just my opinion.... |
I'm confused as to why you think docking causes "harm and injury". Yes, it may cause a minimal amount of pain, but so do shots and microchips. I hope you are correct when you say the imperial data will show that damage is minimal, but in my opinion we shouldn't bet on something like this, we should gather the data.