Tail Docking is Necessary in some Breeds
- As an owner and breeder of terriers. I think it is necessary to dock their tails. If they are working dogs, they can get their tails easily broken. This in a mature dog is far more painful than docking a tail at 3 days old when cartilege is soft. As for cropping ears, I am against that. Ears were originally cropped for gladiator dogs (bull baiting, fighting, etc.). Since these activities are illegal, there is no reason to continue cropping.
- —Guest Cricket
ears and tails
- if they were supposed to have their ears cropped and their tails docked they would be born that way!
- —Guest homer
Tail Docking
- I raise boxers and I do the tail docking but I refuse to crop their ears. I rescued a doberman that had her ears cropped and changed the bandage one time and left them off,I did not care if they stood up. I think it is cruel and humane. I do require my vet to numb my boxers before there tails are docked at 3 days old. I do not do there ears. I only do there tails and dew claws. The reason I do the dew claws is because they serve no purpose and can cause problems. I do believe in tail docking not ear cropping.
- —Guest Dawn
ear cropping & tail docking
- I totally support it, I have & had many dobermans & that is what makes them set apart & stand out in looks from other breeds!!
- —Dobe7
Kross
- I'm against any cosmetic surgery for animals. They should be as nature intended. However I have questions about what exactly nature intended and what man has bred into animals. Long ears, for example, I believe are a product of manipulative breeding. I haven't seen any animal in the wild with long floppy ears. And it's the long floppies that get the awful infections. So, again, what exactly has nature intended?
- —Guest Kross
Ms
- NO! No! A dog is born with a tail and his ears as just as natured intended. It's only done so breeders can make more money on a certain breed. Mixed breeds do just fine and no one wants to alter their tails or ears.
- —Guest yolanda
No more cropped ears or docked tails!
- I was given two Boxers - one with cropped ears and one without. I thought the one with cropped ears looked better but I would NEVER have had it done myself. We should accept dogs as they are and not put them through painful procedures for cosmetic reasons.
- —Guest metoo105
Re: Tail Docking and Ear Cropping
- I have two Yorkies that I adopted on Feb 21, 2009. Missy, 13 and Phoebe, 10 have both been subjected to these procedures. After all these years Missy still is having problems. You literally have to look for her tail to find it. I had my vet look at her & he says she was only left with 1 vertebrae. It clearly bothers her and nothing can be done about it. My vet also said that they would not perform these procedures. My full grown, senior Yorkies are approximately 5 lbs. When these procedures were performed, they were much smaller puppies and, like my vet said, they are even easier to permanently harm. I don't understand why any animal organization would promote such a practice. It is NOT part of the breed if a dog has to have cosmetic surgery to be altered to something other than what they were born with. Besides which, dogs use their tails to communicate, you can't even see poor little Missy's tail. People who support, promote, or perform these procedures should be ashamed!
- —terriperry
ear cropping tail docking
- I think if it is a health issue for the animal, yes - but purely cosmetic is cruel. I have 2 Australian Shepherds and they are bred to not have tails but some do. I wouldn't have bought them if they were going to cut off their tails. I understand the ear cropping if it eliminates or reduces infections but if not then leave them to nature.
- —holly4069
Against any form of mutilation
- Mutilation as defined in the dictionary is: to inflict serious injury on the body or a part of the body of a person or animal by removing or destroying parts of it. I believe that docking, cropping and declawing are all forms of mutilation and should be stopped. I lived in Europe for several years about 20 years ago and it was even then, against the law for a vet to dock tails or crop ears. I don't understand why we are so behind on this issue. Docking, cropping and declawing hurts and is totally unnecessary.
- —kismutt
opposed
- I am against ear cropping, tail docking & even declawing for cats. Dogs/cats CAN feel pain when a body part is removed (just the same way we would feel it if our ears were cut off)!
- —nelliesma
Crooping znd Docking
- I do not support any chopping or docking and thank God someone is about to try and stop it. Let dogs be the way God meant them to be.
- —Guest Bette Myers
Ear Cropping
- I would like to see the ear cropping -- I had Schnauzers who would get yeast infections because of the ears hanging normal. I had other Schnauzers that had there ears cropped and they were fine no infections in their ears. I cleaned the dogs ears out everyday and added medicine to the yeast infection every day the infection would go away and then would come back to the schnauzers with the normal ear -- I like the looks of the cropped ear in the Schnauzers. My daughter had to put her black lab down because the infections was so bad and the dog was in pain all the time.
- —Guest patty18052
Inhumane and Unnecessary
- I strongly believe that altering your dog is inhumane nad unnecessary and only for the benefit of the owners. There is no reason that a dog should have to go thru the pain just for our own wants.
- —Guest Dawn
Opposed
- No docking, no cropping, and no declawing of cats.
- —ShirlParker
