i have just had a litter of pups ,well not me my bitch lol and sadly i could not find a vet that would dock i did have there front dew claws of tho, i saw in a paper o few months back on a lady who docked her own and was fined and was banned from keeping dogs for 5 yrs now i would rather be able to keep my dogs ,i would have liked them to have been docked but thats the way it goes i will just have to wait and see how long it takes for them to damage there tails