Recently, probably the last 3 months. Every time I run my gyp her tail bleeds so much that it gets everywhere. Even on the other dogs. She is 3 years old. Never been a problem before. Should I dock the last 1/2inch of her tail? Would that help?
Cut the hair down to the skin about an inch wide put a band on it and roll it up and down until it settles in between the bones give her a few weeks and run the p out of her .
Is there any way to protect her tail? Some kind of tape to wrap it with that won’t come off, but easy to remove? Just a thought, you may not have any other options but to dock part of her tail.
I saw a guy on Facebook that made tail sleeves out of duck tape. They just slid about half way down the tail. Good way to keep it from getting torn up if you really didn’t want to dock it. Just a thought. Personally I think it would be a pain to do they every time but might be a good alternative for ya.
Tape never stays on in our country. I would put a lamb band on it in between the little bones. They can lose too much blood from the tail. I have had two hounds over the years like this.
To answer the bench question, no it doesn't count for docking the tail, it has been a growing thing for some reason, never have I docked a tail in 40 years handling beagles, this year I have had to band three myself or lose good hounds
I have had it any many different lines over the years In my part of the world if your dog will run rabbit He Will Bleed I dont care how he is bred.....Just part of it Some are worse than others
I really think there is a clotting issue with some bloodlines. If you pay attention, you can see trends. It’s not the cover, because you see people all over needing to dock a tail.
Bk nothing really to it pretty simple and don’t worry about age I’ve done puppies to older dogs no problem. we’ve always farmed so i have the calf banding tool already but you don’t have to buy the tool and the bands are cheap you can take a empty shotgun shell hull cut the metal head off it leaving just a plastic tube stretch a band over the hull with your fingers then run the tail through the shot gun hull where you want it and slide the castration band off the tail that way. You can feel the joints in the tail you can try to put the band between the joints and it will come off alittle quicker and cleaner but you it will work even if it’s on a tail bone so don’t worry about that. Find where you want to place and pull the skin hair back towards the dog and put the band where you want it. Stretching the skin back gives alittle extra skin to cover the tip and heal maybe alittle quicker and cleaner when it does fall off. I’ve banded them two to three inches from the end of tail and banded them real close to top of the tail like black creek beagles, bird dog, boxer, most terriers Australian Shepherd style I like how they both ways it’s just whatever you prefer. Hope I made it sound as easy at is. If you have any questions just call me and I can explain it better. 865-352-0069.
Here’s the tool for the green bands but agin not needed
Folks, I have no experience with this so my thoughts may well be worthless.When I took care of race horses we would sometimes use a type of light weight self adhesive leg bandage for race track use that has a little stretch to it and it has a crepe paper texture to it.I don't remember what it is called.If I ever have this problem I will try that first.Like I said I have no experience with this so take my thoughts with a grain of salt.
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