Tail docking in the adult dog

Amputation of the tail is quite a common operation. Most often it is conducted in puppies aged up to 3 days to form the desired ekserera. Now sandarty species have changed and such manipulation is carried out infrequently.

In adult animals is performed for medical reasons. This is what happened with this Stafordshire Terrier. Because of the injury tip of the tail was gradually atrofirovatsya and shrink, the naked bone. In such a situation, medical treatment is not effective.

In this decision was made to the amputation of the tail. Given the characteristics of the animal (attentive age - 12 years) and the nature of the problem, amputation performed on the 7 th caudal vertebra, not to touch the end of the spinal cord, reaching into the caudal spine. Keep the same tail longer was not advisable because of poor vascularity and a significant risk of poor healing of the wound.