tail docking

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• - UK-based organization's campaign to protect the future welfare of all traditionally docked breeds. News, reasons for tail docking, photographs, survey, and links.
  
• - Origins, pros and cons, organization positions, and fighting the ban.
  
• - Article by Steve Peacocke in response to a New Zealand SPCA campaign to ban docking.
  
• - Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons position statement.
  
• - Response to a proposed law which would ban docking in the UK. Includes position statements and a list RCVS veterinary surgeons who wish to be allowed to continue the practice.
  
• - Working to abolish the practice of docking dogs' tails.
  
• - Australia's Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' reasons to ban cosmetic tail docking. Links.
  
• - A protest to tail docking of dogs as unnecessary and unacceptable. Facts and pictures.
  
• - Legislation, press releases, resource kit for opposing the legislation and links.