Knocking over of tails was known at the time of the Roman Empire - then was considered that this operation is capable to prevent rage. Later to hunting dogs began to cut off tails that they did not wound them about a bush on hunting. To representatives of office and fighting breeds tails shortened as the most weak spots in case of a fight with wolves. And though for many breeds this operation lost sense long ago, and it is often possible to see a spaniel or a Rottweiler with a long tail, many manufacturers nevertheless prefer to stop them.
It is required to you
- - scissors,
- - medical alcohol,
- - potassium permanganate in crystals,
- - thread,
- - elastic band,
- - newspapers or rags of light color
Instruction
1. The first and most widespread way of knocking over of a tail — trimming. This operation is performed when to puppies 5 days, depending on breed were executed on average. To average breeds, for example, to a cocker spaniel, it is the best of all to cut off a tail in 4-5 days, puppies of small breeds can wait a little more — to age of 5-7 days. And here to representatives of large breeds, such as Rottweiler it is necessary to carry out knocking over not later, than for 2-3 days, otherwise the risk of blood loss is high, up to a lethal outcome.
2. Anesthesia or an anesthesia are not required, at the age of several days the puppies are still not too sensitive to pain. Besides vertebras have density of a cartilage and a cut heals very quickly. And here if for some reason to a puppy did not make knocking over to 10-day age, then this procedure can be carried out only under anesthetic and with suture. But it is necessary to wait as the dog is allowed to give an anesthesia not earlier than 3-6 months.
3. It is the most reliable to cause for trimming of the veterinarian, or the experienced manufacturer of this breed. However, if are sure of the forces, and you are not afraid of a type of blood — try. This skill will be especially useful if you are going to be engaged in cultivation of dogs constantly. You can see for the first time the veterinarian, look attentively as as he will do and further to repeat what was seen independently.
4. Before knocking over send a dog mom to take a walk or lock in other room, kids will peep, and she to worry and try to defend posterity. Disinfect scissors alcohol, you can boil them previously. Too surely alcoholize hands and a table. Take from "nest" (place where a bough is together with puppies) on one puppy. Alone you will not cope with knocking over — it is necessary that someone held a puppy.
5. A puppy it is necessary to put on a table a back up, having directed it a tail towards the one who cuts off a tail. It is necessary to hold between palms so that the trunk and all extremities were recorded. Measure the necessary length, pull skin to the tail basis to a limit. strong you hold a tail between big and a forefinger. Cut one fast movement. Now the puppy needs to be turned rather a tummy up. Fill in a wound with alcohol and powder with potassium permanganate crystals. Observe a puppy on a table about 5 minutes — whether the tail bleeds.
6. If everything is all right, then it is possible to shift the kid in the separate box covered by newspapers or light rags — if bleeding opens, you will notice it at once. If bleeding does not stop, then it is necessary to draw hardly the tail rest closer to a wound a thread. In case of a perevyazyvaniye, do not forget to cut off accurately a thread in 2-3 hours. For bigger reliability it is possible to sew up wounds at once. After operation observe puppies half an hour, and then it is possible to put safely them back to mother.
7. There is also a way of knocking over by an elastic band. The round elastic band is wound around a tail in the right place. It is also possible to reel up it on a cap from the pen, to insert into it a tail and to shift an elastic band on necessary distance. With it the puppy has to go 2-3 days. Blood supply of a tail slows down and stops, in several days the died-off tip disappears. This way is good for those who are afraid of blood, besides at this way there is practically no possibility of sepsis.
8. Before cutting, it is necessary to measure the necessary number of vertebras — for each breed there is the standard at length of knocking over of a tail. Though often veterinarians or inexperienced manufacturers leave only 1-2 vertebras. So leave to spaniels or a wire-haired pointer a third of length of a tail, to a decorative poodle or a Kerry Blue Terrier — a half, and to a Rottweiler and a Dobermann terrier pinscher only 1-2 vertebras.