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Originally Posted by taflar
I personally think it should be left up to the breeder. The puppies are not hurt as much as the AR people would have you belive. The nerve endings are not complete as newborns and a puppy is normally docked between 1 and 3 days old.
Peggy
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I haven't ever de-tailed a dog, but I've done plenty of lambs. The ones you do at one day old simply don't seem to notice it - you band them and let them go and they just wander away back to their mamas. But the ones done at six weeks, when farmers generally do them, are a different story - they lie down and writhe around and definitely are not happy animals for a while. So yeah - if they are done early, I have no problems about it at all.