Met a cute puppy but

Was in our local pet shop today and one of the staff had her 10wk old pup in for the day. He was a lovely Jack Russell but.....................he was docked
It just shows you that the laws regarding dogs are not taken seriously

Thats really sad.... Will laws ever be taken seriously?? xx

Sad....but I hope it has a great home now....sounds lovely

I have been told that it is not illegal to dock pups if you are registered to dock??

Ah but then you are in Fairy Land!
From what I understand, and I'm sure someone else will say if this is wrong, you can only dock working dogs, dogs that actually work not breeds that normally would.... and then yes the person who did it need to be registered to do it.

Ooooo we were talking bout working rotties at the time so yeah that is probs what she ment!

Now I thought, and I may be wrong, that it apllied more to wokring dogs that could get their tails damaged by the job they do, ie spingers getting hooked on brambles etc and ripping their tails.

Is there a job rotties do that would result in their tails getting ripped? Coz otherwise you'd have a hard job to explain why rotties were being docked.

I think in Scotland it is not legal to dock even for working dogs

i thought you could dock if they were working dogs?

ive seen alot of adverts still saying taht they are docking as they are working doggies..........

You are right, docking has a total ban in Scotalnd, working dog or not.....

http://www.bva.co.uk/policy/issues/docking.asp