 Tail
A very interesting and sometimes very academic treatment of this issue. Having read most of the thread I am not sure I know which way to think. The pros and cons are hard to rate to come up with a definitive answer.
If I may lighten the technical, moral and medical tone......and hope I do not offend! But having walked dogs like Maltese and Papillons with long bushy tails, I found that the poop does not always follow gravity and land neatly on the ground. I was left with a messy situation that usually entailed (sorry about the pun) washing the whole tail. So that is one good practical reason for me to have a short tailed dog. Sorry for the lowering of the thread's tone! |