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Just wondering what yalls thoughts are on them... Does it affect them in any way?

I have the same opinion with bob tail dogs that I do with hairless cats and buck toothed chickens. 

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Just an opinion. But I like mine doesn't effect anything. I like different not everyone has a natural Bob tail

All my curr dogs are half tails

All my dogs are bobtail but one.  Not all natural though. I just prefer it.


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I like a 5-6 inch bob tail on all my cur dogs...but I want them born with a long tail...sometimes that is hard to breed because a dog with a normal tail can be missing one vertebrae at the end of the tail and this dog will throw bob tailed pups and this dog appears to be a long tailed dog...

I do know that the tails can get shorter and shorter until some pups will be born with spinal bifida...some folks say that bob tailed dogs can't ran as well as a long tailed dog...I think in some cases it is true but I have had some fast natural bob tailed dogs...

hate listening to tails banging in the box, and i just prefer the look of a bob tailed dog.

What you gonna do fonzie take an ax to RJs tail ??  :o lol Jk

^^^^^lol...don't do it fonzie!

Lol no! .. just trying to see if it affects a dog in any way...

X2 and i hate them tail wacking me on my bad knee. if my pups are not born stub tailed, they get docked with in 3-7 days of being born. the last litter i used castration bands. worked great and pups didnt yap and no blood. they fell off.

If you will start bobbing your pups tails in two generation later the pups will be born half tailed three generations they will be born full Bob tailed. ;) :D

Does it bother them any.. this may sound dumb but does a natural bob tail dig have mire balance then a dog with a dock tail?

My natural half tail n the 2 i kept that i bobbed dont show any signs of no tail bothering them. They nvr had a tail so it would b like a natual bob nvr being born with a tail.

Have you ever noticed how a dog will lay on it's tail in cold weather. That is because it helps to keep them warm because the blood is close to the skin and there is alot of blood traveling through the tail. The tail also helps to cool them. It's kind of like pouring cold water on the back of your neck or on your wrist to help cool down when you are really hot. The tail also helps with balance but I don't think it affects their balance if they grow up without a tail. I don't mind a bob tail dog but if their born with a tail then I leave it.

Hey bud 7 of my Freak pups were born natural bobtails, pretty cool I thought.  As far as speed the fastest most agile dog on my yard is a natural bobtail, and the second fastest hardly even has a tail naturally. So in my opinion it makes no difference.

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they look better with full tail, imo, plus helps when reading the dog,

We have both natural and bobbed tailed dogs, you can read them the same as a long tailed dog and we have never seen a balance / speed problem.  It is also quieter in the box and they are just easier to look at.

I have a yellow dog that is 'monkey tailed' and I think it is ugly as the day is long, I wish I could dock it but he is a year old....plus he is clumsy as he!! already with a tail lol

I had a litter of pups about a year and a half ago, i bobbed what i wanted to keep and a few that were picked out by friends that wanted bobbed as well,  the rest were kept natural.  All the dogs out of the litter are doing good whether they are bobbed or not. After seeing that litter turn out like they did whether bobbed or not, i really dont think it makes a difference.


On a side note, the dog i had in highschool got hit by a truck, took him to the vet, they had to bob his tail cause it was messed up big time.  He was three when he got hit, he lived to 15, and never missed a beat.