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Originally Posted by TheBooCrew  Hi, I'm new to YorkieTalk.com. Our beautiful yorkie, Nahla had a liter of 4 pups on September 16th. The plan was to have the pups tails docked and dewclaws removed on the 18th. We had been second guessing the whole tail docking thing from the beginning. r, shorter, or?" He says. He told us his daughter had a yorkie that had a tail One of the vet techs looked up some information on the internet and read off some information that [B]basically said that the only purpose to dock the tail and crop the ears on[/B] the yorkie is for AKC standards for show purposes. |
First welcome to YT. Hope you enjoy your stay. I have bolded the information that is unfortunately incorrect from a "vet tech" that researched the internet. That is namely even in England and in the long history of the YT EARS have NOT BEEN CROPPED.
And again unfortunately despite what your "learned vet" who if he was learned would know at least how to dock a dog's tail and to what length, there were sound reasons in history to dock a Yorkies tail.
I just would like future readers to know there is a tad more to learn about docking a YT tail then is portrayed in this post.
I hope your litter and Mama does well, I'm sure your waiting list is agog and impatient to see these Yorkies pups.