I wish this was online so I could link to it. At the vet's a couple of weeks ago I was thumbing through Dog Fancy and their cover story was on Dobies. There was a little box about why you should crop and dock your dobie, aside from if you're going to show him/her.

So, apparently, a perfectly legit reason (nay, obligation) to dock and crop a dobie ( Read more... )

A big ole case of WTF were you thinking??? Let's go get our poor little 12 week old puppy's tail docked because o0o0o NOES!!1!! he might knock something over!!!!

She deserves the vet bill for being such a dumbass.