Springer spaniel - tail docking

[CorbynForTheBin]

Morning all

We're planning on picking up an English springer pup in the next month or two. Tail docking is still petty common with them being classed as a working breed (ours won't be working).

Would be interested to hear your thoughts on it, especially from ESS owners!

Thanks

[CorbynForTheBin]

Cheers, that's kinda my thinking.

It looks as though half, maybe more litters are docked - legally it seems to be that it's 'ok' if all docked ones don't go into work, as long as the intention was that they would be working - if that makes sense.

I'd rather it have a full tail! Am I right in thinking that outside of being a working dog, there's no 'benefit'?

[CorbynForTheBin]

Thanks to the first few posters who cleared this up for me!