Docking, or cutting short, the tails of very young dogs was a traditional procedure for some breeds, carried out either for aesthetic purposes or to reduce the likelihood of injuries. In 2007, the ...

At one time, dogs weren’t pets. Instead, they had jobs and consequently had a docked tail. Dogs worked on farms and in the military and helped with hunting, fighting, ratting, and baiting. That’s not ...

None of our MPs would deliberately smash a dog's tail and leave it a bloodied mess. Yet a proposal to ban tail docking for working dogs threatens exactly that for thousands of animals. This involves ...

Campaigners calling for a law banning tail-docking in Scotland to be overturned for working dogs have claimed a breakthrough after the Scottish Government agreed to commission research into the issue.