Italian Spinoni, like Achilles, often have their tails docked as they are used as gun dogs in Italy, where they flush birds out of hedges A dog owner who adopted her pets from Italy via a rescue ...

Editor’s note: Dr. Lee Pickett has retired, but Creators continues to distribute columns from her archive. This one is from 2022. Q: Our Rottweiler has a docked tail, as do many dogs in the U.S. While ...

Ear and tail docking involve surgically removing part of a dog’s ears or tail. This practice, which has been around for centuries, originally aimed to prevent injuries in hunting and working dogs.

At one time, dogs weren’t pets. Instead, they had jobs and consequently had a docked tail. Dogs worked on farms and in the military and helped with hunting, fighting, ratting, and baiting. That’s not ...

Dogs that have undergone medical procedures to alter the shape of their ears or the length of their tails seem to acquire a certain combative appearance and there is some new data which suggests that ...

In response to my article on "What a Dog's Tail Wags Really Mean" I received a note about a Labrador Retriever named Molly. It read in part: After her accident [involving a collision with a motorcycle ...

Two Pittsburgh men were jailed without bail Wednesday on dozens of animal cruelty charges that accused them of cutting off six puppies’ tails at their Hazelwood home, among other abuse. The botched ...

Working dogs would be exempted from a ban on tail docking under an amendment to the Animal Welfare Bill proposed yesterday by Margaret Beckett, the Environment Secretary. Shooting bodies, which have ...

Q: Our Rottweiler has a docked tail, as do many dogs in the U.S. While watching a British dog show on television, I noticed that all the show dogs had natural, undocked tails. Why? A: Many countries ...

A dog owner who adopted her pets from Italy via a rescue charity says a ban on dogs with docked tails from entering the UK would be "a real tragedy". In December 2025, the Department for Environment, ...