Yorkies do have long thin tails they carry out behind them rather than roached more safely over the back or having the thick, sturdy tail of the Lab or GSD but knowing how genetically the breed is so prey driven and will go under lawn furniture or through snaggled fencing or anything in a heartbeat - whereas a greyhound or less prey-driven dog might not - I'm glad I have one with a docked tail. And those zillions of pages on Google asking about tail injuries and various medical conditions in dogs such as limber tail and on and on are empirical evidence that problems with the tail are not insignificant. And when one factors in that the people going online are the people that care enough to go online and ask to the tune of page after page after page, one wonders how many dogs go untreated or even unrecognized as having tail injury problems?
__________________  Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |