tail-docking

For example, British kennel clubs outlawed ear-cropping a century ago, and cosmetic tail-docking was stopped in Great Britain in 1993.

Bruce Friedrich: It's Time to Catch Up With Britain: Crufts, the AKC, the BBC, and USA Network 2009

They endure many agonizing procedures like debeaking, tail-docking, castration, toe removal and branding – all performed without painkiller.

Attack of the Vegan Molecule! 2008

The industry's solution to this, rather than providing a more relaxed or comfortable environment, is to perform a surgical technique on the piglets known as tail-docking (amputating the tail using either pliers, scissors, or a knife).

The Life of a Breeding Sow 2006

One Line Whips only really come on conscience issues...or tail-docking!

The Role of Chief Whip Kerron Cross 2006

A number of mutilations are routinely performed when the calves are still very young, such as castration for the males, removal of supernumerary teats for the females, disbudding (which prevents the development of horns), and tail-docking.

Dairy Cows and Veal Calves 2006

So, if I had a tail which had not been docked by evolutionary pressures, you would find it now carried quite low, near my legs, with little movement: an obvious indication of my emotional state over the tail-docking issue.

How to Speak Dog Stanley Coren 2000

There is much research and debate over how much pain the animals experience during tail-docking or teeth-removal.

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed JESSICA LEEDER 2011

There is much research and debate over how much pain the animals experience during tail-docking or teeth-removal.

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed JESSICA LEEDER 2011

In the U.S., many of the millions of cows and other animals who are killed for their skin endure the horrors of factory farming-extreme crowding and deprivation as well as castration, branding, tail-docking, and dehorning-all without any painkillers.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

The same footage of employees beating and kicking animals and digging their fingers into eye sockets that convinced Denver cheese maker Leprino Foods Co. to drop Willet as a milk supplier and Manhattan Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal to introduce anti tail-docking legislation - is "not necessarily illegal" says a statement from the Cayuga County District Attorney on YNN News 10.

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