Stupid extreme greens and animal rights people here too. And the Veterinary Association was supposedly pushing for it too. The breeder informed me it is now even illegal to own a dog with a docked tail if it was born after a certain date.

When the tail docking was introduced here I remember reading studies in Sweden where since it was introduced there, the incidence of hunting dogs with broken tails has gone up tremendously.

But the animal rights cretins would argue that hunting dog breeds have no place in our 'plastic' society anyway and should be exterminated or bred out. I think they have the right idea but the wrong target ie the target should be them.