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Originally Posted by magicgenie  Not at all rude, a very good question. I do not consider these things when making a decision to dock or not because I still do breed mostly docked dogs with the docked tail in mind. I make decisions not to dock based on other things, such as a puppy is already out of conformation for some other fault such as too much white on the chest, or looks too tiny to grow to standard size. I can see it must be necessary to consider tail length and width in breeding decisions when the standard calls for the full tail. This is not possible when breeding docked dogs.
I do not consider docking cruel and I will be very sad if it ever becomes a legal issue. Meanwhile, I want to appreciate any beautiful Yorkshire Terrier and not be distracted by tail length.  |
Oh, I thought you didn't dock most of your dogs, I didn't realize you dock some. Did you read Mikes thoughts about his preferences towards certain tails, do you have an opinion on that?