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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  I wonder if those who are so against the pain of tail docking in 3-day old dogs feel just as strongly about dew claw removal? If your dogs have their tails, do they have their dew claws?
Should that procedure be banned also? Pups cry just as much from that procedure, if not more.
If not, why not? |
Our Pfeiffer has both her tail and her dew claws and we have no problems whatsoever with either. At spay time, I asked my vet her opinion of removing dew claws, and she stated it's really not necessary in the vast majority of dogs, if ever really.
I would be fine if my other 2 had their tails and dews too, honestly.
I wouldn't have a problem if dew removal was banned too if it's cruel to the animal and unnecessary. I understand that some think it's necessary for hunting dogs, and I can't say that it is
really true or isn't as I don't have any adequate statistics one way or another. My sister has a hunting dog and his dew claws are intact -- as a physician, she couldn't ethically support the removal of them based upon the purported "benefits" usually given in support of removal.
I see any human preferences or conveniences as secondary when it comes to interventions like this. That's just the way my soul works and what my heart dictates.