tail docking
Hello people who bother to read this, how are you? I hope that everyone is having an amazing summer. I definitely am, I've just got back from two and a half weeks in Canada. Lets me just say it was absolutely sensational !!! Tomorrow is results day, and yes I am extremely nervous, I've put everything I have into trying to get this place at uni and if I don't get in then, to be honest I have no idea how I'm going to react and tell everyone. Anyway that is by the by I can't change it so why worry. Whilst in Canada I noticed that a lot of the dogs had docked tails. In the UK and most all EU countries this practice is now illegal, however I noticed that in Canada it obviously wasn't so I did some research.
From my research I found that Canada along with the USA don't have any laws against cosmetic surgeries in dogs, these include tail docking and ear cutting. However the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association, opposes these practices. It is illegal in the state of Prince Edward Island and has been since 2015 and it is also illegal in the state of Newfoundland and Labrador, since 2012. There are also a few other states in which veterinarians can't carry out these practices under their state veterinary associations. For me this topic is very interesting, my dog has her tail docked and her dew claws removed, this is because when we bought her that is what was done to her breed and also at the time CRUFTS criteria was for GSP's being shown to have docked tails. This was because the GSP is a hunting dog and in the past most hunting dogs had their tails docked for a few reasons. Firstly if the dog was to be running through the undergrowth and get its tail caught and ripped then it can easily become infected and is hard to stitch up. Also if the tail becomes broken then that can be extremely painful for the dog, so in the past the tails were removed to prevent this from happening. I know a GSP that didn't have its tail docked and it recently broke its tail and so had to have it removed, this dog wasn't a working dog and it still managed to break its tail. There are other cosmetic surgeries carried out I mentioned my dog had her dew claws removed, these are the claws just on the ankle bit of the dogs legs, it is done for the same reasons as the tail, in that they can be broken or ripped off, so if they are removed as a puppy then this can't happen. The final cosmetic surgery sometimes carried out is the cutting of ears, this is to prevent them from being ripped whilst hunting, ear docking in the UK has been banned since 1899. Now in the UK none of this allowed unless the dog is a registered working dog, and it can only be done on some breeds, CRUFTS also changed their criteria for the affect breeds when tail docking was no longer allowed. I know that this topic is very touchy, but this is only my opinion, I feel that if my dog hadn't had her tail docked then she would most certainly broken it, so for her I believe it is beneficial and also because I have grown up knowing my dog now seeing a GSP with a full length tail seems strange.
I hope that made semi interesting reading, along with seeing a lot of cropped tail dogs in Canada I also saw a tonne of wildlife. I saw loads of ground squirrels, along with an elk, loads of mountain goats, some Blad eagles then we also saw sea lions, seal, sea otters and amazingly we saw a whale as well. It was so incredible seeing all of this wildlife in such an untamed landscape, another thing was the signs they had everywhere saying that it was cruelty for the animals to feed them, and there was a fine of something like $2500 for doing so, now I thought that this was interesting, I know that for where I was in Canada it was important not to leave out food as for the worry of attracting bears. however I saw these signs everywhere we went. And I think its a good idea, leaving the wild animals be is very important, in the UK they only have warning not to feed the animals but I think having a fine is a good idea because it really deters people from feeding the wildlife and potentially harming them.
Again thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed it. Hope you have a good day and a good summer or winter depending on which hemisphere you are in. See you next week, wish me luck for tomorrow, and good luck to anyone else getting their A-level or GCSE results within the next week.
From my research I found that Canada along with the USA don't have any laws against cosmetic surgeries in dogs, these include tail docking and ear cutting. However the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association, opposes these practices. It is illegal in the state of Prince Edward Island and has been since 2015 and it is also illegal in the state of Newfoundland and Labrador, since 2012. There are also a few other states in which veterinarians can't carry out these practices under their state veterinary associations. For me this topic is very interesting, my dog has her tail docked and her dew claws removed, this is because when we bought her that is what was done to her breed and also at the time CRUFTS criteria was for GSP's being shown to have docked tails. This was because the GSP is a hunting dog and in the past most hunting dogs had their tails docked for a few reasons. Firstly if the dog was to be running through the undergrowth and get its tail caught and ripped then it can easily become infected and is hard to stitch up. Also if the tail becomes broken then that can be extremely painful for the dog, so in the past the tails were removed to prevent this from happening. I know a GSP that didn't have its tail docked and it recently broke its tail and so had to have it removed, this dog wasn't a working dog and it still managed to break its tail. There are other cosmetic surgeries carried out I mentioned my dog had her dew claws removed, these are the claws just on the ankle bit of the dogs legs, it is done for the same reasons as the tail, in that they can be broken or ripped off, so if they are removed as a puppy then this can't happen. The final cosmetic surgery sometimes carried out is the cutting of ears, this is to prevent them from being ripped whilst hunting, ear docking in the UK has been banned since 1899. Now in the UK none of this allowed unless the dog is a registered working dog, and it can only be done on some breeds, CRUFTS also changed their criteria for the affect breeds when tail docking was no longer allowed. I know that this topic is very touchy, but this is only my opinion, I feel that if my dog hadn't had her tail docked then she would most certainly broken it, so for her I believe it is beneficial and also because I have grown up knowing my dog now seeing a GSP with a full length tail seems strange.
I hope that made semi interesting reading, along with seeing a lot of cropped tail dogs in Canada I also saw a tonne of wildlife. I saw loads of ground squirrels, along with an elk, loads of mountain goats, some Blad eagles then we also saw sea lions, seal, sea otters and amazingly we saw a whale as well. It was so incredible seeing all of this wildlife in such an untamed landscape, another thing was the signs they had everywhere saying that it was cruelty for the animals to feed them, and there was a fine of something like $2500 for doing so, now I thought that this was interesting, I know that for where I was in Canada it was important not to leave out food as for the worry of attracting bears. however I saw these signs everywhere we went. And I think its a good idea, leaving the wild animals be is very important, in the UK they only have warning not to feed the animals but I think having a fine is a good idea because it really deters people from feeding the wildlife and potentially harming them.
Again thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed it. Hope you have a good day and a good summer or winter depending on which hemisphere you are in. See you next week, wish me luck for tomorrow, and good luck to anyone else getting their A-level or GCSE results within the next week.
Being a veterinary is the most honest and humble job one can do. It is not easy to be a veterinary doctor long working hours and treating harmless animals who are not able to express themselves.
ReplyDeleteYour totally right. This is the job I've wanted to do all of my life for that reason. Thank you for the comment
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