I was honestly in the same boat as you, I didn't like the practice BUT found a breeder I loved and honestly, the pros outweighed the cons.
I got the puppy (obviously.) and have no regrets.
I had yet to find a quality breeder (that works their dogs as does as much as I would like with them, that I clicked with, that focused so much on health) that didn't dock... so the tail, for me, COULD NOT over-ride the importance of health, temperament, breeder relations etc... so I put it further down the list and focused on everything else.
Basically, to find a tailed dog I'd have to put MUCH MORE important things aside and shuffle the priorities around, and that just was not going to happen.
I knew his breeder was what I wanted, I knew coming this close to "perfect breeder" was rare, we clicked, I loved her dogs...I got the dog. *shrug*
Now I love the bunny butt
I have no doubt docking is one day going to be a thing of the past. Merlin's breeder is already (I believe) not docking mis marks and such. But until then...I'd just suck it up really.
I'm happy I did
Just my 2 cents.
I got the puppy (obviously.) and have no regrets.
I had yet to find a quality breeder (that works their dogs as does as much as I would like with them, that I clicked with, that focused so much on health) that didn't dock... so the tail, for me, COULD NOT over-ride the importance of health, temperament, breeder relations etc... so I put it further down the list and focused on everything else.
Basically, to find a tailed dog I'd have to put MUCH MORE important things aside and shuffle the priorities around, and that just was not going to happen.
I knew his breeder was what I wanted, I knew coming this close to "perfect breeder" was rare, we clicked, I loved her dogs...I got the dog. *shrug*
Now I love the bunny butt
I have no doubt docking is one day going to be a thing of the past. Merlin's breeder is already (I believe) not docking mis marks and such. But until then...I'd just suck it up really.
I'm happy I did
Just my 2 cents.