Coaxed into inhumane cosmetic dog decisions

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• marduk@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Can I offer you a handful of human foreskins and docked puppy tails in this trying time?

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  • 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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    • 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 ⁨22⁩ ⁨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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• Varesti@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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  • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The owner:

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  • wizardfrag@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Is that Chief from Isle of Dogs?

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• VolumetricShitCompressor@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This isn’t a real thing, is it?

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• PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  under aesthetics 💅

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• kablez@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Maralago face for dogs…

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• ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve seen a Crumplehound with untrimmed eyes once and I almost puked. It’s fine if you don’t want to do it but please, keep you uglyass dog inside. No one wants to see this shit.

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