Docking (animal)
The practice of removing a portion of an animal's ears or tail / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For ear cropping, see Cropping (animal).
Docking is the intentional removal of part of an animal's tail or, sometimes, ears. The term cropping is more commonly used in reference to the cropping of ears, while docking more commonly—but not exclusively—refers to the tail; the term tailing is used, also. The term has its origins in the living flesh of the tail, commonly known as the dock, from which the animal's tail hairs grow.