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Thin skin over hard bone and all those tiny joints is unforgiving when it comes to injuries. Amputation is often the safest and least painful option for the dog, especially as the dog doesn't need the tail for mobility.
You explained it much better than I did. This is what happened to my dog. His tail was injured and the safest thing to do was to amputate a portion of the tail.
It happens from time to time at the shelter where I volunteer. They really try other options, wrapping the tail and/or putting a cone on the dog. Believe me, the dogs don't understand that people are trying to help them. Wearing a cone is no more fun than a hurting tail.
It happens from time to time at the shelter where I volunteer. They really try other options, wrapping the tail and/or putting a cone on the dog. Believe me, the dogs don't understand that people are trying to help them. Wearing a cone is no more fun than a hurting tail.
I also spent many years volunteering at sa shelter. We called what you are describing "happy tail." Unfortunately some dogs had it so bad you would go in the kennel and think someone had whipped the dog to eat h with all the blood on the sides of the kennels. You'd try to wrap with different degrees of success. Some would chew at he wrap but the ones with the "worst" cases of happy tail would just bang the wraps off. I don't recall that we ever docked a tail for this reason but I could see a shelter doing it if it was a bad case, particularly if the dog had been at the shelter for a while and is likely to be there a while longer. Dogs are also harder to adopt out when they have severe happy tail.
That way the so-called "gentle breeds" can be dangerous while looking sweet and endearing.
Yeah, but that tail isn't going to inject you with some fatal disease like the teeth on the other end of the dog can. Not all hazards are equal.
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