Most of my best Yorkies have come from Europe with their full tails. I often choose not to dock puppies in hopes putting them out there as pets will help change attitudes. I do occasionally place a choice dog of my breeding with a handler, but always one with docked tail. That's just how it is now. My wish is to establish docking as an option in the standard and let the judges decide which dog looks best. In time they will learn to appreciate the undocked tail.
While making docking optional in the US standard will allow dogs from other countries to compete here, docked US dogs will still be banned abroad. When I've questioned this I've been told, without explanation, that US breeders don't want to compete with foreign dogs. |