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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  The AVMA and all vets will carry a lot more clout when they stop docking tails and dews for money, euthanizing dogs for bad behavior and debarking innocent dogs that bark out of boredom and loneliness.
I've lifted neonates to look at a toenail, clear its mouth or otherwise tend it and had it yell its head off the entire time it was being fiddled with. I accidentally stepped on another's little paw in the nursery once and nothing was said by the little baby. I've seen a breeder snip the webbed toes of an infant that just yawned while she did it. When being mentored, I saw Dobie pups never stir when a tail was docked. Most I saw settled within a minute though and most just cuddled back up with littermates and went to sleep.
Older puppies in crates yell their heads off all night without worry. Vets give the okay to many breeders to release their puppies for sale and new homes at 6 weeks and people take 6 week old puppies from their mothers and stick them in pens, sometimes even in basements, and shush them when they yell. No one worries about their emotional pain or distress but frets over a neonate's pain? I don't see an AMVA statement about that subject. Vets give the okay for Bulldog breeders to breed their bitches knowing the dam will need a C-section to delivery her pups. Seems unethical to clear for breeding dogs that have to have surgery to reproduce a puppy. Vets haven't said anything about the unethical breeding of teacup and ultra-mini dogs as far as I can tell. There is a lot about vet medicine I just don't understand or necessarily agree with about breeding and treatment of young puppies and some misbehaving dogs. Don't get me wrong, I rush my dog to a vet at the first sign of trouble but that doesn't mean I agree with them about everything or even this issue.
I for one am so glad my dog came with his tail docked and dews removed and has even a 3 - 5% less chance of injuring those areas because of it! I prefer the look of a docked tail and glad I don't have to trim a dewclaw on each foot once a week!!! I'll keep looking for that type pup to purchase in the future until I see sufficient reason to change. |
I can respect that, especially the first comment about the AVMA putting its money where its mouth is (to paraphrase what you said). And I also agree that there are good reasons to remove dew claws--those do tend to get caught on things and ripped out, which is much more painful than having them removed properly in the first place.