dogs tail...its bad. pics added what to do?

[Gunslinger Beagles]

i would not dock it just neospoene if you want to. all my dogs are worse than that even the puppies tail was bleeding today. they are bred for this stuff. use wisdom but let them go hunting. jmo

[Shotgun John]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsAWAk9t ... er&list=UL

Looks like to me he didn't get no tape on the end where it is needed. Joey, do you have problems in your area with your dogs tail being tore up. In your videos it looks like pretty easy running for the dogs tails. Of course our spo dogs do a lot of ceremonial tail wagging and that increases the drain of energy and blood loss.lol

[Gunslinger Beagles]

i read on a post that mtd will grow hair back on the tail. I wonder if mtg wtd will grow hair back on my head!!!!!!!!!!!lol im going get me some of that and grow me some hair.LOL

[Shotgun John]

i read on a post that mtd will grow hair back on the tail. I wonder if mtg wtd will grow hair back on my head!!!!!!!!!!!lol im going get me some of that and grow me some hair.LOL

If it does be sure to let us know as I need to replace some too.

[billy]

It doesnt look too bad. If I have a dog that doesnt get this, I wont have it for long. Its the sign of a good hunting dog.

good luck hunting

[Ky. Hunter]

i read on a post that mtd will grow hair back on the tail. I wonder if mtg wtd will grow hair back on my head!!!!!!!!!!!lol im going get me some of that and grow me some hair.LOL

If it does be sure to let us know as I need to replace some too.

Amen to that. I would use it twice a day if it worked.

[jumpNrun]

ive seen way way worse than this at hunts and my dogs get it some worse than others i have one outta red river runner he has it really bad a couple in of it and it even looks as if it got so bad it reshaped the tip of his tail blood everywhere in the snow you could follow the blood all day i do want it to get better and grow hair back but if i hunt hi it wont happen its all part of it i think.

[mobeagle]

Not offense but that isnt BAD. I've got 11 hounds in my kennel and dont have one tail that looks that GOOD! I have one that bleeds ALOT and i put gluestitch on it before I run her and seems to work well. Seals it up tight.

[Mo. Beagler 5000]

i assure you guys its pretty bad... lol i know i sound like a wuss but right now its just a pink thing sticking up with no hair at all.... the guy at last weeks trial asked what the **** i did to her tail and she is sticky with blood after normal hunts to where it stains my hands.. i got some tape though to start using....now i need to find her a running pen cause i have 0 running time now that baseball started

[Bunnyblaster]

My males tail looks a little worse than that and it's gonna be either dock it or tape it every time we go out. His sides are red within the first 30 minutes or so no matter what we're hunting in. And laying him up doesn't take care of it either, it'll just go right back the way it was after the first or second hunt back out. I hate to dock tails but that may be what I end up doing.

[ohlinger]

i assure you guys its pretty bad... lol i know i sound like a wuss but right now its just a pink thing sticking up with no hair at all.... the guy at last weeks trial asked what the **** i did to her tail and she is sticky with blood after normal hunts to where it stains my hands.. i got some tape though to start using....now i need to find her a running pen cause i have 0 running time now that baseball started

Dock it then b/c once the tail gets to a certain point it's just all scar tissure and tears open easily and never heals right again. so you really only have one choice cointinuously put the dog up to heal or have it docked. Good luck trying to find a vet that actualy understands why you would do such a cruel thing to ur pretty beagle that was my prblm look for a vet that other rabbit hunters use.

[Bunnyblaster]

You guys that dock them yourselves..............

What bands do you use? Where do you get them? And how do you put them on?

Also do you just go down to where the raw meets the hair? A little above that? A little below that?

[Lone Pine Beagles]

I just docked 2 tails this winter.

Tractor Supply sells the bander and the bands.
I use the green bands.

For the tail length:
I take and run the tail down along the dogs back leg.
I place the band where it meets with the leg joint.

Tail tip should fall off within 2 days - 2 weeks.

Works great!

LPB

[fasttrackpa]

I just docked 2 tails this winter.

Tractor Supply sells the bander and the bands.
I use the green bands.

For the tail length:
I take and run the tail down along the dogs back leg.
I place the band where it meets with the leg joint.

Tail tip should fall off within 2 days - 2 weeks.

Works great!

LPB

This is what we used to do, my vet suggested it actually. Then our state passed a law we are not allowed to dock tails after a pup is 3 days old...Unless done by a vet, now my vet applies the bands when needed.

I have also had a couple done surgically and they took forever to heal, never did look as good as the tails that were banded.

[ohlinger]

Fast trackpa

that is crazy to think that the state can step in like that. How do they know if a vet does it or you ? do you have to keep a statement from the vet stating it was done by them ?