Comment on Coaxed into inhumane cosmetic dog decisions

marduk@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• insanemantis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Bro I’m a grown man and didn’t even know about tail docking until probably months ago

  Saw this lady in an elevator with a dog, and the dog had no damn tail

  Anyway I was like “umm is your dog okay??” And she just gives the most nonchalant, indifferent explanation, she’s like “ohh yeah her tail got docked~” and I’m just thinking wtf is she even implying here. I had to google what that even meant later because it didn’t even occur to me that she actually had that dog’s tail removed on purpose

  I assumed that she meant that the tail was diseased somehow and had to be amputated, like maybe docking is just emergency tail amputation- BUT NO AARRGGH I hate this planet

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  • arrow74@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Idk if this makes it any better but docking started as a practice for dogs doing certain jobs to help avoid injury.

    Basically tail injuries were common and a clean removal was overall actually better. Then it slowly became something done for no purpose other than cosmetic which is disgusted. Honestly we shouldn’t even have working dogs anymore either, but at least its origins made sense at the time

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    • insanemantis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The injuries were related to the dog’s job

      That’s like if people work at a candy factory but people keep injuring their thumbs on the candy making machine, but instead of making the machine safer we just cut off their thumbs

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      • arrow74@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        These dogs weren’t running factories they were chasing vermin and helping in hunting. The wild animal will fight, but both jobs were necessary for survival and impossible to redesign at the time.

        But we have invented new ways meaning that dogs are no longer required for these jobs. This should have been when docking was abandoned

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  • frostedtrailblazer@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There is a chance that it was not the owner’s choice necessarily, as it could have been a prior owner/breeder. Although in all likelihood it may well have been the owner that decided to dock her dog’s tail.

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  • frostedtrailblazer@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There is a chance that it was not the owner’s choice necessarily, as it could have been a prior owner/breeder. Although in all likelihood it may well have been the owner that decided to dock her dog’s tail.

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  • kolmaskommentoija@sopuli.xyz ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wait when you read about ear-cropping, then, it is even more sick. Both docking and ear-cropping are forbidden in most of Europe, since both are animal abuse, and should only be performed, if there is some actual health problem (like tail breaking, or something). Both are widely practiced in the USA, for looks.

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• daggermoon@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If you cut off your dogs tail or circumcise your child, than I don’t like you.

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  • decolo@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Had a neighbor I would wave at occasionally, big sloppy white guy, one day I drove past and he had a pit puppy with bandaged ears and tail running around in the front yard.

    Had to take a different road out of the neighborhood the rest of the time I lived there to avoid violence.

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