Ban Tail Docking on Dogs in Ireland

Yes i have a nice collection of saws to dock those hands that attempt docking a dogs tail without anaesthesia and only for med reason.

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This has to be stopped. Ban tail docking!!!!

As a fourth year vet student the thought that this might go ahead terrifies me. I can already imagine all the septic puppies I'll see from botched attempts. You'd have to do it 500 pups to prevent injury in 1; injury which is unlikely to be as serious as the number of septicaemic pups that this is going to result in. This petition is going around my class like wildfire we feel so strongly about it. This cannot be justified. Admittedly castrated ram lambs go through the same thing but there is a significant economic factor to that and the taint to the meat from the testosterones if this was left until later, along with other reasons, makes it necessary, even if I still don't agree. There is simply no need for this. Why should we allow the docking of tails of countless of puppies on the off chance one might end up as a hunting dog when, as vets, we won't allow each other dock the tail of a adult dog going into hunting because we consider it mutilation, and we'd have the pain relief and anaesthesia the to do it!

Please don't allow tail docking & dew claw removal to be carried out by non vets. The awful suffering to dogs caused by botched removals is experienced in rescues all to frequently. Please say no to cosmetic docking. Dogs were given tails for a reason.

Please ban this barbaric practise .... such animal cruelty has no place in civilized society

Leave the dogs tail alone, he needs it to show us he's happy!

Its a disgrace and needless cruelty .. what kind of people would do this

This is a needless and barbaric act performed purely for cosmetic purposes and should be stopped immediately

Please help to stop stop this barbaric and totally useless practise

Done

"The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated"

Tail docking is absolutely disgusting, owners want to alter the dogs appearance to make them look nicer? Sick

unnecessary, cruel practice, a dog has a tail for a reason, leave it alone

Please stop this cruel and inhumane treatment of puppies

Disgraceful act of cruelty

The Tail, the whole Tail and nothing but the Tail.
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Cruel & unnecessary x

Its about time Ireland stopped being backward, we don't allow animal cruelty, so what do u think this is then.

Please make an urgent change to stop this cruelty to innocent puppies. This country is in a bad enough way as it is - please stop allowing the cruelest of our society from doing as they please. There is no reason for any person to dock a tail or mutliate puppy claws. Make it stop

This is a barbaric and totally unneccessary practice done purely for the pleasure of humans and has nothing to do with the health of the animal!

Please sign and put an end to this

This is barbaric - it needs to be stopped - NOW