[gemy]

Well I reason as follows, if we as a "human" species decide and the only reason to decide a certain way is that a certain procedure has some pain (albeit) temporary pain that this is a good enough reason to ban a procedure; then there are a whole lot of medical procedures we put our dogs through that have at least as much or even more pain (one would think) associated with them.

There needs to be more to the picture in my opinion then just "avoidance of pain".

It's fine that you feel happy you didn't dock the tails, and it was your CHOICE, one you were able to freely make to do or not to do.

I prefer to maintain that CHOICE for every breeder. So I could never support at this point in time (with the research that I am aware of) and my own experience a BAN on docking. A BAN on dewclaw removal, and a BAN on ear cropping.