--- Anneliese Virro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Now Sally and I did not like docking a tail the typical
> way.....so we
> > did some reserch and we found out that some breeders use
> > banding.....it is the same basic concept of the way we nueter our
> > young male sheep. You just take a band and put it around the
> tail
> > and withing a week the end part of the tail falls of. No puppies
> > crying from the pain....you can do it at home so as not to stress
> the
> > mom dam by going for a vet visit....it really is painless.
> >
> > Of course, I have had people very upset with me for tail
> > docking.....I do it a painless way, but I know most are done at a
> > vets office with a lot of pain.
> >
> > Skye
>
> Why amputate the poor dogs' tails at all? Because of the looks? Why
> not just
> leave tails alone - longer handle that way. Why do people have to
> fool
> around with mother nature at all? I hate the idea of cutting off
> parts of
> animals just because of fashion dictates. Just as I hate the idea
> of
> circumcision just because everyone does it. Just my two cents'
> worth.
>
> Anneliese
Well lets see I did write in my post why people dock tails for the
Dobes and the JRTs, its not fashion....also, the way we do it there
is no pain, not painful like a nueter from the vet or a geld for a
horse....which by the way is not a Natural state either......
Skye
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