Comment on Coaxed into inhumane cosmetic dog decisions
arrow74@lemmy.zip 1 day agoIdk 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
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
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
insanemantis@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m going a step further, because you know tail docking is as old as 2,000 years ago? People didn’t even know that animals felt pain
I don’t know much about the details, but here’s what makes me suspicious: didn’t dogs already chase and hunt before domestication?
And, you’re telling me that only after humans make a job out of it, it becomes something that injures their tails?
This is why the factory analogy starts to make sense, because clearly there is something that was put in place, that we imposed on the dogs. Something changed, from the wilderness to their jobs, that make chasing and hunting less safe for them
And instead of doing the responsible thing and making it safe by idk, fixing the thing that injures their tails? No, no too hard, no let’s just fucking cut off the entire thing
I mean that’s just so dramatic