RCVS COUNCIL CALLS FOR BAN ON NON-THERAPEUTIC TAIL-DOCKING IN DOGS............
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www.bsava.com
" The BSAVA Council is of the opinion that the docking of puppies' tails is an unnecessary mutilation and urges the RCVS to promote legislation leading to the outlawing of the procedure, unless the tail has previously been injured and the injury cannot be managed by any other means."

www.bva.co.uk
"Good-luck with your initiative, which has our full support.  The BVA has long been opposed to this mutilation, that over 90% of veterinary surgeons find abhorrent.  We will continue to campaign vigorously to ensure that non-therapeutic docking, both cosmetic and prophylactic, is completely banned."

BVA Animal Welfare Foundation
Click the link below to view a copy of the latest BVA AWF publicity material regarding tail docking
http://www.bva-awf.org.uk/resources/posters

Susan Waddell BVMS MRCVS

Paul Walden BVetMed MRCVS and Cathy Curtis BVetMed DVD MRCVS The Chestnut Veterinary Group, Ware , Herts.
"All of the vets at this practice are strongly opposed to cosmetic tail docking."

Andrew Wales PhD BVSc MRCVS

Lucy R Walker BVetMed MRCVS

Jack Walsby Hon.F.R.C.V.S. Past president RCVS
"I fully supprt the initiative, and have opposed for years and banned it in my own practice some 30 years ago."

M T Walters BVetMed MRCVS

Malcolm Walters BVSc MRCVS
Partner Crossroads Veterinary Centre. High Wycombe
"Most breeds have their tails docked because 'it has always been that way' and therefore it is done out of habit or 'fear' that the puppies will be rejected in one way or another. I support the statement from the BVA."

Sheena Warman BSc BVMS DSAM DipECVIM-CA MRCVS
University of Bristol

Laurence Webb BVSc MRCVS
Midsomer Norton. Somerset.

Peter A Wedderburn BVM&S CertVR MRCVS

Karen Westcott BVSc BSc MRCVS
"I would like to be added to your list of vets who are against tail docking for non-medical reasons, I consider then practice a mutilation and am shocked the government have not acted on this issue sooner."

Frank Whaley BVM&S, MRCVS, DVSM.
Jill Whaley BVM&S, MRCVS.
We wish to record our full support for a total ban on the non-therapeutic docking of dogs tails.

Richard Warren BVSc MRCVS

Charlotte Whatmough BVetMed MRCVS

Natasha Watts BVSc BSc MRCVS

Simon Webb BVetMed MRCVS

Philippa Welsh BVSc MRCVS

Richard Weston
"I am proud to say that in 28 years in practice I have NEVER docked a tail,...." Read More

Sue Wheeler B.Vet Med. M.R.C.V.S.

Lindsay White BA Hons Cantab. Final Year Vet Student.

Ruth Wickens MRCVS

Catherine M. Williams BVM&S, MRCVS

Dr Kim Willoughby, BVMS, PhD, MRCVS

Miss M E T Williams BVSc MRCVS

Charlotte Wills BVM&S MRCVS

Matthew Wilson MA VetMB MRCVS

Tim Wilson BVSc MRCVS - Bristol

David Whitaker
Dairy Herd Health & Productivity Service (DHHPS)
University of Edinburgh
"I applaud your initiative. I have been against docking for most of my career and have tried my small best in the veterinary press in the past to get it outlawed. Good luck. The fact that I am a cow person now doesn't mean that I don't care for dogs as much - well nearly as much!"

Alison White BVMS CertWEL MRCVS

Robert White-Adams BVSc MRCVS, Bristol

Colin Whiting BVSc CertSAS MRCVS
Clinical director, County Vets Ltd- Alsager, Sandbach, Holmes Chapel and Newcastle-under-Lyme.
"I never have tail docked puppies and I never will. Tail docking causes pain and distress and is a barbaric mutilation for fashion's sake alone."

Nat Whitley, BVMS, PhD, CertVC, DACVIM, DECVIM, MRCVS
Davies Veterinary Specialists, Hertfordshire.

Miss M E T Williams BVSc MRCVS

John Williams MA VetMB CertVR FRCVS DipECVS
European Specialist in Small Animal Surgery

Rhian Williams BVSc MRCVS Vets on the Park, Cheltenham.

Ruth Willis BVM&S DVC MRCVS

Onno Wieringa BA VetMB MRCVS

Andrew Wills BVM&S CertSAO MRCVS
Toachim House Veterinary Surgery, Faversham, Kent.
"Dogs look and functions so much better with an expressive organ
like the tail, that it just seems crazy for the practice of tail docking to
continue in a so-called humane society. I bet many breeders who dock were
opposed to fox hunting, yet continue to ignore the welfare of their own
charges. After all, ear cropping was outlawed over a century ago; when will
tail docking (apparently originally performed by the Romans to prevent
rabies) follow into the pages of history?"

Agnes C Winter BVSc, DSHP, PhD, MRCVS, FRAgS
Head of Department of Veterinary Clinical Science
Veterinary Teaching Hospital

Cass Wittwer BVSc (Hons) BSc (Hons) MRCVS
I'd like to add my name to the list of vets against the senseless act of cosmetic tail docking. The UK needs to follow Australia's lead to completely ban tail docking, not just by veterinarians, but by the even worse scenario of laypeople doing so. It's fantastic to see happy wagging tails on rotties, boxers and the like, and the more people that insist on dogs with tails, the more breeders will have to accept that docking is certainly an unnecessary act of the past.

Margaret Woodward, BVMS, MRCVS.

Paul Wotton BVSc, PhD, DVC, MRCVS
RCVS Diplomate & Specialist in Veterinary Cardiology

Jonathan Wray BVSc DSAM MRCVS

Chris Wright BVSc MRCVS

Emma Wright. BVSc(hons) BSc(hons) MRCVS

SAM WYLES BVSC
Bridgend WALES

David Yates BVSc MRCVS
Hospital Director. RSPCA Greater Manchester Animal Hospital

Mrs Suzanne M Young B.Sc., BVM &S, MRCVS

Stefano Zago MRCVS
Mill House Veterinary Surgery and Hospital, King's Lynn.

Candice Zehnder MA VetMB GPCertSAS MRCVS

Tara Zilic BVetMed MRCVS