Scottish Executive bans Tail Docking

[DeputyMacDawg]

Here

i do think they should have exempted working dogs.

Agree with you Expat.

I mean, if you're going to allow lambs and pigs to be tail docked . . .

Same old double standards that exists with all animal welfare. We can't possibly dock the tails of poor little puppy dogs, but we can battery farm chickens because they don't matter. Sad isn't it?

Expat, how many dogs do you have and what type?
Do you use them for shooting?

My Cocker spaniel pup hasn't had his tail docked and it looks really weird! The first bit is fat then where it normally gets docked it goes thin!

When I was young my friend lived on a farm and I helped her dad out one spring holding the lambs while he put the bands around their tails and balls - it wasn't very nice but I guess it was neccessary.

agree with you about the working dogs expat.
Lambs tails are only docked as they often get covered in the inevitable and then get flies laying eggs on them which grow into maggots etc......
Not so sure about pigs....I know that baby piglets will eat each others tails, but do have a feeling that they might not do this if they weren't kept intensively.....