Docking Tails (dogs- want your oppinon).

[ozark hen]

Definitely your choice, but something else to consider...if they are registered and sold, maybe someone would want to "show" them? then they would need to have their tails docked to appropriate length. Best to do it at one day old then to wait till it is very painful for them? Just an opinion.

 

[monarc23]

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I'm not selling my pups with full rights, so they cannot be shown. I will have a contract that the pups are to be altered at 6 months old as well, so again they cannot be shown. If there ever comes a time I would sell with full rights, that person would of have to have been on a waiting list with me prior so that that specific pup when born will be docked that'd be the only way I'd dock a puppy, but it would have to be some special circumstance...they probably wont be show worthy as they don't have the show coat, or mussle shape, as well as my male is a nonshowable color.

My male is the "working type", so he's got a longer mussle for retrieving shot birds, and a shorter/tangle free coat for ground work. My female has a longer coat, but still has the longer working cocker mussle.

So more than likely they wouldnt even be accepted in a show ring, or if they would be, they wouldn't win any high placing.

I'm pretty sure that most vets would not be willing to amputate a dogs tail (an adult dogs tail) without a physical ailment as to why it needs done. Atleast I know that most vets I've talked to are not comfortable doing cosmetic things without a health reason involved.

Good points but it's not really a point in my case since they wont be able to be shown.

 

[Emzyyy]

First I think their alot better lookin' with their tails. Second its kinda cruel unless the dog is clumsy and is always hurting its tail then its prob for the best.

 

[ozark hen]

Then I wouldn't worry about it and do what you want to do and not worry about what others think.

 

[LoveMyPeeps]

I was a vet tech and I wish the owners would watch tail docking being done to 3 day old puppies. It's incredibly barbaric and very painful for the pups. I applaud you for considering not docking your future litters.

 

[ruth]

Someone recently dumped what appears to be a full-blooded Min Pin here - she's only 5 months old. It took us two weeks to catch her and by then she was starving and scared and Hurricane Gustav was about to hit. I've fallen in love with her and think her floppy ears and always wagging tail are too cute and can't imagine why anyone would cut them off and alter them because they want a different look. Here's our Prissy.

 

[fowltemptress]

Kudos for doing what you want. I'm all for docking, and am personally thankful that I happen to be in a country that gives you a choice.


One poster asked if anyone would cut off a baby's finger . . . well, yes, that's actually a common practice for people born with extra fingers or toes. It's much better to get it done as an infant than as an adult. I'd also have male infants circumcised . . . my SO has on more than one occasion expressed relief that his parents had it done to him as an infant, rather than him being forced to choose a painful operation as an adult. Some men don't feel this way, I know, but there certainly are those who do.

 

[monarc23]

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I'm not worried about it honestly, just curious how others feel about it. I've already talked it over with my show group, and only a few replied but the ones that did either had explainations as to why they do (because of show or their theory that the tail will rip off in hunting) or that they don't dock. Just curious what others who dont own the breed thought (or that do). It's nice to get feedback that's so simliar to my own thoughts on it.

 

[monarc23]

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she's gorgeous and is VERY lucky you guys were so determined to help her!!! I agree way cuter looking natural!

 

[monarc23]

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You have very good points about the finger thing, im sure if a cocker pup had two tails, one would prob cause a problem and i'd surely get it removed if it did (but it'dsure be interesting haha)! I'm stil even on the fence about if i'd want to circumsize my someday son...however my husband alerady put his foot down on that one (it will be done!) LOL, so if our someday son is ever peeved that it was done, he can yell at my hubby.