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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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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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Might be surgically correctable.

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

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

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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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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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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

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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i was thinking along those lines. thanks

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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.

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id just leave it alone an name her hooky.

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I would cut it off right behind her ears lol

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