Some of you may have seen me mention this on other fora.

Last time I docked a litter of pups (Jack Russell), none exhibited vocal distress for longer than 6 seconds.
Within 30 seconds they were all feeding.
Within 2 minutes they were all playing.

Any one of them displayed greater and longer distress over thunderstorms , agressive older dogs or (in one case) having it's toe trodden on.

Don't give me rubbish about this being "cruel"...

Cooch