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Personally i am very pleased about the ban, but not so pleased that there will not be exemptions for working dogs as proposed in the status quo - that IS a welfare issue. I would have supported anything stating that a spaniel with a working gundog lisence could have its tail docked. Although i also fully support a complete ban on docking any dog that will be a pet or showdog and would have been annoyed had the status quo been passed without a lisencing clause as that would ahve left the way WIDE open for people to SAY their dogs were working animals when in fact they were not. However the argument for docking pointers is moot. The reason german pointers are docked is the terrain over which they run in their native country. In the UK there is no reason to dock them as due to the nature of their traditional roles they run the same terrain as english pointers who are NOT and have never been docked. If you want a docked pointer opt for the naturally docked bourbonnais pointer.
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