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Originally Posted by dottiesyrky  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! |
Humor is always welcome
Try that with a 100 lb dog. And yes my Zoey was long tailed and we had some "accidents" before I learnt the trick of the correct sanitary cut! It was bath time for her, and about an hour blow dry time after to take care of her butt....
She was an enthusiastic tail wagger and my heart was in my mouth many times as that tail whipped from wall to wall when she greeted me at the front door. Not to mention the morning wake up tail wag in my face ROFL