Talk:Docking (animal)

Move from Docking (animals)
Per Naming conventions I have moved this article to a more appropriate (if only just) name.Garrie 04:36, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Since 2004 it has been illegal to dock dog tails in Australia. It is also banned in Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, Finland, Germany, Denmark, Cyprus, Greece, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and Austria. Ref.: http://www.rspca.org.au/campaign/tail.asp —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cgoodwin (talk • contribs) 07:07, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Ears
The lead indicates that "docking" refers to the removal of part of either the ears or the tail, and yet the rest of the article goes on only to talk about docking of tails. Of all the pictures, there are no pictures of animals with docked ears. Other than a brief mention of hounds with floppy ears having their ears docked, this practice is pretty much not refered to anywhere else in the article. Some serious expansion needs to happen with regards to this -- you're missing half the content. 71.56.222.63 (talk) 04:43, 13 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Technically, I think cutting ears is "cropping." See cropping (punishment) for the term when used on humans.  Hence, I recommend that you could create cropping (animal). and DO let us know if you do!  Montanabw (talk) 05:05, 13 September 2011 (UTC) Follow up:I just created it as a stub; others can expand upon it.   Montanabw (talk) 05:09, 13 September 2011 (UTC) I got on a roll and wrote cropping (animal).  Feel free to expand it there.   Montanabw (talk) 07:09, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

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Docking and clipping in horses
I was trying to find evidence for the statement that "docking" can sometimes now refer to the clipping of the hairs of the tail without physically cutting the dock of the tail itself. I can't find any. All the discussion I can see concerns "docking" as the cutting of the tail (as in other farm animals such as sheep and pigs, and in dogs), either trying to justify it, or noting that it is banned as cruel in many jurisdictions. I find reference to clipping the hair to the end of the dock as an alternative to docking, but I have not yet found anyone actually calling this hair-clipping "docking". I can only assume that when some people see a horse with a clipped tail (or even a nicked tail), they ignorantly miscall it "docked". Can anyone offer evidence to the contrary? Myopic Bookworm (talk) 11:56, 7 November 2022 (UTC)