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Originally Posted by Cha Cha  Labradors are retrievers and were bred for water. The tail is used for its purpose of hunting and swimming and allows the Lab/Golden etc., to be agile in the water providing balance and steering. I know lots of people take their Yorkies swimming, but it's not the same thing. And both Australian Shepherds and Border Collies are working dogs, but one has a docked tail. I wonder if it isn't a cosmetic difference to set the two apart since they are strikingly similar.
For Yorkies, at least in today's time, tail docking is purely cosmetic. And those with an opinion one way or the other isn't going to change. IMHO. |
Tail docking is illegal here, I wonder what statistics would be of injuries to Yorkies that do ratting and ferreting, from before the ban and after.