<<<<<<nd cutting off (docking) tails is also an unnecessary practice that should be stopped.>> Just to keep a balanced view of tail docking - In many breeds that work, such as gundogs whose specific work takes them into rough cover where the tail gets damaged and lacerated, tail docking is to the benefit of the dog. For some hundreds of years, tails on some breed were docked because experience showed that this was for the dogs benefit. For many years now, Sweden has banned tail docking and now working gundogs are suffering with damaged tails. In some cases there is a good argument to be made for tail docking - Jeanie
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