Tail docking – Crucial or cruel?

Posted by admin on February 5, 2010 under Glass Clamps Articles | Comments are off for this article

Tail docking, ie the removal of all or part of the tail of an animal – in this case a dog. There is currently one of the hottest issues in the world of the dog world.

It's called docking Dock is the bony part at the beginning of the tail, where the tail joins the hip. It corresponds to the human sacrococcygeal symphysis.

Docking is usually done when the dog is 1 to 5 days. There are 2 methods —

The tail is locked a short distance from the body, and the proportionqueue outside the bracket is cut off.
A small rubber ring placed on the tail to desired length – usually through a common body of the dog. This prevents the flow of blood to the rest of the tail, which falls in about 3 days.

The length of the queue is removed, usually about one quarter and one third of the total length of the dog.

The practice of cropping or tail docking of dogs has taken place since Roman times, when people think that preventsspread of rabies. It has for centuries, sometimes helped by a government tax on the length of the tail of a dog!

Today is mainly performed on pure-bred and race. There are about 70 breeds of dogs, where tail docking is still ongoing in North America. The only exception is the hunting and shepherd dogs, where it is widely accepted that it is better to anchor the tail of a dog's health and safety.

Controversy rages today overthis practice is not really necessary, or whether it will be unnecessarily performed for cosmetic reasons.

The world is round canine geographical basis for the division of this book. In the United States and Canada, tail docking as the standard for dozens of purebred dogs.

Most countries of continental Europe and Scandinavia have banned the practice. Britain has been banned in April 2007 – with the exception of hunting and working dogs.

E 'strong emotions,United Kingdom) Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (roll call vote, the British regulatory body for veterinary surgeons, said that they consider tail docking to be "an unjustified mutilation and unethical, if not for therapeutic or acceptable prophylactic (disease prevention) causes "done.

Proponents of tail docking say that improves the safety of a dog – dogs who work in "a dense vegetation cover and spine is a very high risk of injury to the tail. Some breeds, working within sealedAreas covered by similar types of injuries tail.

They stress the fact that in Sweden, the number of injuries to the tail of the former docked breeds from 38% to 51% after docking was banned in 1989.

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