How To Dock A Dog’s Tail With Rubber Bands?
Docking is normally done by the puppy’s breeder in the United States. There are two method to dock your dog’s tail with rubber bands. The dog’s tail may be surgically removed, or the breeder may use a tight elastic band to cut off circulation. The tail eventually dies and falls off. Read on to for step by step guide to get this done.
“Long experience demonstrates that the treatment produces no pain or suffering when performed correctly,” say proponents of docking. Anesthesia is not utilized since the puppies are said to be too physically young to sense discomfort. By the way, until the early to mid-1980s, the same logic was applied to human neonates, who were subjected to major surgery without anesthetic or pain treatment.
It’s also said that because puppies frequently suckle just after being docked, they can’t be in pain. Studies suggest that young animals and babies may eat more or have so-called “sleeping fits” following known traumatic events, contradicting this assumption. Eating and sleeping maybe “displacement behaviors” in these situations, which are everyday actions that appear at inopportune times in reaction to stress. Alternatively, they could be a direct survival mechanism, as both rest and nutrition help animals recover after an injury.
How to use rubber bands to dock a dog
Puppies here refer to dogs around a week old, such as Alaskan Malamutes. Obstruction of blood circulation is the main principle. The tissue that needs to be amputated will die and fall off spontaneously within a few weeks. There will be no bleeding, and because the puppies’ neurodevelopment is still immature, they will not experience too much discomfort. There are two primary types of tail docking:
1. Docking method for valve core tails
We’ll need the following three items: a suitable pen tube, a valve core, and a valve. Iodine is used to sanitize a pair of scissors. One end of the pen tube should be small enough to fit inside the puppy’s tail.
Use scissors to cut the valve core into 1 to 2 cm parts, open the valve core (tweezers can be used), and position the valve core on the pen tube from the thinner end.
When the dog wants to disinfect the root of the tail with alcohol or iodophor, enter the dog’s tail into the pen tube, push down the valve core that was previously set on the pen tube, and place it on the puppy’s tail, and the tail docking is completed.
After that, clean the binding area with iodophor every day. Because there is no blood circulation, the tail will naturally dry and fall off after approximately a week, and the wound will be quite tiny. The wound is next lightly cleansed, and Yunnan Baiyao, an anti-weaving ammonia medication with no hemostatic action, is applied (used to activate and restore cell tissue).