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Texas Belle User is Offline

Austin, TX

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04/23/2010 2:45 PM
Is that anything like a bird brain? LOL

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MH
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04/24/2010 3:28 AM
Here's Casey's tail...

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04/24/2010 7:03 AM
Just to clarify. All the photos shown make it very clear to me that the dock job was poor. Pixie - we've had a few solid liver tails in our litters and we have never had a bald nub. Same goes with all colors - ticked and white too. My vet takes a lot of pride in the method he uses to dock and it shows. He cuts the top side of the tail (think when the dog is standing up) a little longer than the bottom, creating a beveled edge. Then he pulls the skin with hair on it around the end and puts a stitch or two in on the underside of the tail. Produces a beautiful tail every time. Jean

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Texas Belle User is Offline

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MH
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04/24/2010 7:36 AM
Jean - I think that is the same way my vet does tails. You did a better job of describing it though.

Bev Quarles, the Pointer Sisters (Belle and Halo), the Outlaw GSP (Johnny Ringo) and the little Princess (Fauna) Yellow Rose GSPs "A dog has the soul of a philosopher." - Plato

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04/24/2010 8:39 AM
Yes, that is how my vet did my singleton boy, Price's, tail, nine years ago. You cannot see the skin. It is beautifully done.

Eleanor Campbell New Jersey Sydney, Presto, Price, Ozma and Soleil

pixie bee

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04/25/2010 8:06 AM
It's possible the exposed tips could be poor docking. One reason we were doing our own is b/c we couldn't find a vet who ever docked a tail on a 2 day old pup. It probably depends on the individual dog, but when the hair grows long and over the tip it looks good. Both my dogs have a tuft of hair past the actual tip. I think it looks very natural,they do not have a nub under the hair.

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MelB

MH
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04/25/2010 7:38 PM
Xara's tail is fully covered, but if I look really close I can see the scar v-shape from it

Splat

Illinois (Northern)

MH
Posts:3136

04/26/2010 5:21 AM
Donner's tail is white and he has a teeny tiny bald spot...I'll have to get a picture, it's really small...

DavyLee

Raymond, Maine

SH
Posts:51

04/26/2010 6:22 AM
Gunner is solid liver and has a bald spot ont he top of his tail. I also think it was from a not so good docking of the tail. It has been that way since we got him at 3 yo and is still like that today at 5-1/2. Vet seems to think it is becasue of the way he sits or lays and it rubs it off. there is stubble on it it just doesn't get long enough to call hair

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Cape Breton, NS, Canada

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04/26/2010 9:37 AM
I actually might trim dieters tail hair! It is like and inch and a half long right at the end and I cant find any bald spot.

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jlp8cornell User is Offline

Ithaca NY

MH
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04/26/2010 10:18 AM
Max's is ticked at the end and fully haired.

Jen http://www.perfectpedigrees.com/4genview.php?id=2440

liver1

Litchfield Park, AZ

MH
Posts:86

04/28/2010 6:52 PM
I have a liver gsp and I cannot find a bald spot either. Just picked up a second and her white tail is fully "haired"

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