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This attitude is reflected by provincial boards that recently have moved to impose
bans on ear cropping and tail docking. Though long the subject of some controversy,
these procedures serve both aesthetic and practical ends, injury prevention and hygiene
among them.
This current turf war over puppy tails is just a preview of coming attractions.
The state that has no business in the bedrooms of the nation seeks to insert itself
into the fallopian tubes of its poodles.
A Canadian Kennel Club (CKC) director recently recounted the hostile atmosphere at
a recent meeting with the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association (CVMA): "These
vets are not only speaking of cropping and docking. Several, led by New Brunswick,
are openly critical of the CKC's breed standards, feel that breeders are poorly educated
with respect to health, genetics and breeding practices to support an animal's welfare
and are censorious of breeders -
To
achieve this, they hint at legislation. After all, who better to condemn the docking
of a puppy's tail than the person who will, in a few weeks time, slice open her abdomen
to remove a healthy uterus? Who better to seek criminalization of ear cropping than
a profession that declaws kittens for profit?
For as often as they're consulted by media and policy makers on matters canine, a
veterinarian receives no training in basic breed identification, much less the diverse
origins and forces that shape gene pools. It's unreasonable to expect them to -