Cosmetic tail docking: an overview of abuse and report of an interesting case

BACKGROUND: This paper presents an overview of the global controversies surrounding cosmetic tail docking in puppies, some observed inconsistent practices among dog breeders and Veterinarians in West Africa, and the need for the African Veterinary Profession to take a decisive position on the cosmet...

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Autores principales: Eyarefe, Oghenemega David, Oguntoye, Cecilia O.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4772368/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26927281
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12917-016-0666-z
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description BACKGROUND: This paper presents an overview of the global controversies surrounding cosmetic tail docking in puppies, some observed inconsistent practices among dog breeders and Veterinarians in West Africa, and the need for the African Veterinary Profession to take a decisive position on the cosmetic docking procedure. CASE PRESENTATION: An interesting report of observed complications associated with cosmetic tail docking in a 3 week old male Boerboel is reported alongside the management of the ensuing complications. CONCLUSION: This paper highlights the still prevalent practice of cosmetic tail docking and seeks to enlighten clinicians towards stemming its abuse in Africa.
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spelling pubmed-47723682016-03-02 Cosmetic tail docking: an overview of abuse and report of an interesting case Eyarefe, Oghenemega David Oguntoye, Cecilia O. BMC Vet Res Case Report BACKGROUND: This paper presents an overview of the global controversies surrounding cosmetic tail docking in puppies, some observed inconsistent practices among dog breeders and Veterinarians in West Africa, and the need for the African Veterinary Profession to take a decisive position on the cosmetic docking procedure. CASE PRESENTATION: An interesting report of observed complications associated with cosmetic tail docking in a 3 week old male Boerboel is reported alongside the management of the ensuing complications. CONCLUSION: This paper highlights the still prevalent practice of cosmetic tail docking and seeks to enlighten clinicians towards stemming its abuse in Africa. BioMed Central 2016-02-29 /pmc/articles/PMC4772368/ /pubmed/26927281 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12917-016-0666-z Text en © Eyarefe and Oguntoye. 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4772368/
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