Tail docking is becoming a hot topic, but how much of the nation’s dairy herd has undergone the management practice? Cassandra Tucker of the University of California points to USDA’s 2007 National ...

The California Dairy Quality Assurance Program (CDQAP) worked with leading academic experts at the University of California to develop the 40-page Dairy Welfare ...

Breeds such as Boxers, Rottweilers, and Yorkshire Terriers are often associated with tail docking. However, the practice has shifted mainly from being ... it is sometimes done when the puppy is very ...

Docking, as defined by UK law, typically refers to the removal of a puppy's tail without anaesthetic and not for medical purposes, which is illegal in the UK. This, of course, was not the case for ...

Gwen with her owner Sophie Scott-Thomas. (Tom Wren via SWNS) Docking is when a puppy has their tail amputated without anesthetic and not for medical purposes - and is illegal in the UK for most breeds ...

Docking is when a puppy has their tail amputated without anesthetic and not for medical purposes - and is illegal in the UK for most breeds. Sophie has started a petition for Defra to allow dogs who ...

Unless the farmers remove their barbed wire I think tail docking for working dogs is perfectly acceptable. Far better that the dog grows up without a tail than grows up with one and has to have it ...

Dr. Jonas Watson, owner of the Grant Park Animal Hospital, says most of the time when tail docking occurs there is an infliction of pain to a dog for no clear reason. (Kevin Nepitabo/CBC ...

WoolProducers Australia general manager Adam Dawes said both tail docking and mulesing were generally done to mitigate flystrike risk, but if they aren’t done well enough it can have the ...

Tail docking involves removing most of a puppy’s tail, usually when the dog is just 3 to 5 days old, and it is done without anesthesia. The rationale being that a young puppy’s nervous system ...

TENS of millions of sheep in Australia could be at risk of compromised welfare from short-docked tails, according to the results of a recent survey and previous research. The results of a national ...