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Posted by croatankid on 11-22-2012 12:48 AM:

remove knot in tail

i've got a 5 mon old english female pup. she's got a hook in her tail. it hooks down like a airplain tailhook. she got hung on some wire under my computer table and pulled my speakers off. so i want to cut the hook off. now that she's 5 mons old is there someway other than going to the vet? one person suggested putting a rubber band on it and it will drop off. any ideas? the hook is at the end and about one inch is facing the wrong direction..

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Posted by bigdiezel79 on 11-22-2012 01:01 AM:

Honestly the safest and best hustle would be just go to the vet. The rubber band deal is a bad idea for a pup that old in my opinion.

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Posted by HuckFinn on 11-22-2012 03:30 AM:

Might be surgically correctable.

Posted by Cody Carroll on 11-22-2012 02:27 PM:

I wouldn't band one that old. Too much risk of infection and the bones are already formed. I would go to the vet.

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Posted by Cynthia on 11-22-2012 04:34 PM:

fyi - unless medically necessary, most vets will not remove tail...or parts of it.

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Posted by chuck west on 11-22-2012 04:55 PM:

Take a pic of it so we can see it ,thanks .

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Posted by croatankid on 11-22-2012 07:05 PM:

i considered every hook name i could think of and i didn't like any of them. i like a name i can yell without sounded rediculous. i named her stella. everyone that has every seen the movie, street named desire, knows how the yell "stella". also, we have a communittee here named stella too.

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Posted by Dan Dogs on 11-23-2012 02:13 PM:

put a band on her tail. they dock full grown milk cows tails all the time. when the tip starts to dry up, pour a little peroxide around the band area every day til it falls off.

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Posted by patches9452 on 11-23-2012 04:19 PM:

only grown dogs i have ever known of them cutting the tails off of banding is how they done it.... do it yourself and save the vet bill

Posted by Andy Purnell on 11-23-2012 05:23 PM:

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put a band on her tail. they dock full grown milk cows tails all the time. when the tip starts to dry up, pour a little peroxide around the band area every day til it falls off.

guys do this with beagles all the time. never a problem

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Posted by cody jaster on 11-23-2012 08:42 PM:

Don't know about a dog but I've sure banded a lot of calves balls. Those suckers get huge then they dry up turn black and fall off. They walk funny for awhile too!!! Ouch!

Posted by croatankid on 11-24-2012 03:01 AM:

andy purnell, why do they do it all the time with beagles? do they have problems with their tails? i'm ignorant.

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Posted by Dan Dogs on 11-24-2012 03:32 AM:

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andy purnell, why do they do it all the time with beagles? do they have problems with their tails? i'm ignorant.

beagles beat the briars pretty hard running rabbits, they dock there tails so they don't get beat up and bloody while hunting.

Posted by croatankid on 11-24-2012 04:25 AM:

i was thinking along those lines. thanks

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Posted by Andy Purnell on 11-24-2012 12:48 PM:

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beagles beat the briars pretty hard running rabbits, they dock there tails so they don't get beat up and bloody while hunting.

That's right, I've seen some beagles loose a lot of blood from beating the end off their tail. If they have a knot guys will almost always take it off with the dewclaws. The ones I have done, we trim the hair around where the band will go, (we use the same bands that are used for lamb tails.) Find a joint, put the band on and keep an eye, it takes about 10days and it gone. I don't usually even stop hunting the dogs. If the tail is bad beat up, you can see the relief within a couple of minutes. My vet taught me how to do it. It is now illegal for us to do in PA...Thanks to city folk...

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Posted by walker1978 on 11-24-2012 02:34 PM:

id just leave it alone an name her hooky.

Posted by J.R on 11-24-2012 02:38 PM:

I would cut it off right behind her ears lol

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