Idk if this makes it any better but docking started as a practice for dogs doing certain jobs to help avoid injury.

Basically tail injuries were common and a clean removal was overall actually better. Then it slowly became something done for no purpose other than cosmetic which is disgusted. Honestly we shouldn't even have working dogs anymore either, but at least its origins made sense at the time

Wait when you read about ear-cropping, then, it is even more sick. Both docking and ear-cropping are forbidden in most of Europe, since both are animal abuse, and should only be performed, if there is some actual health problem (like tail breaking, or something). Both are widely practiced in the USA, for looks.

//Edit: And this post is making fun of overbreeding. There are breeds, like shar pei, that have been bred to have so much skin folds, the eyelids can for example curl inwards, and you have to perform surgery, to cut part of them away, so they can see and the eyes will not hurt all the time. So, first people breed terrible traits into dogs for looks, and then those traits have to be surgically fixed, for the animal to have any quality of life.

There is a chance that it was not the owner’s choice necessarily, as it could have been a prior owner/breeder. Although in all likelihood it may well have been the owner that decided to dock her dog’s tail.

There is a chance that it was not the owner’s choice necessarily, as it could have been a prior owner/breeder. Although in all likelihood it may well have been the owner that decided to dock her dog’s tail.