Tale of a tail

Labrusca · Post by **Labrusca** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 4:50 pm

I'm not an AKC member or anything, but I'd swear that cocker spaniels, among other dogs, don't naturally have stubby tails - they are "docked" - cut off short soon after birth. So has the CS girl had her's docked?

Oooh, what a marriage that would be, a dog and a skunk. When the kids wagged their tails you wouldn't know if they were happy or if you should duck and cover.

Mikhail Dragoslav · Post by **Mikhail Dragoslav** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 4:55 pm

Both girls are based on my dogs. Maggie is an english springer spaniel, and yes, her tail is that stubby. We bought her when she was maybe five weeks old and that's the way she was. I don't think her tail was docked or anything. She's also that excitable.

She's extremely adorable...and dumb as a post.

Deflare · Post by **Deflare** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 6:25 pm

And here I was about to make an intellectual comment that, in the world of Goblin Hollow, cocker spaniel families may have their children's tails docked the same way that some real-life families have boys circumcised. Never mind, then.

CasVeg · Post by **CasVeg** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 6:25 pm

Mikhail Dragoslav wrote:She's extremely adorable...and dumb as a post.

Is she as dumb as this post?

Maxgoof · Post by **Maxgoof** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 7:36 pm

labrusca wrote:I'm not an AKC member or anything, but I'd swear that cocker spaniels, among other dogs, don't naturally have stubby tails - they are "docked" - cut off short soon after birth. So has the CS girl had her's docked?

According to the kennel websites I checked, you are correct. Springer Spaniels do indeed usually have their tails docked. They are not normally that short.

Jaydub · Post by **Jaydub** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 8:18 pm

CasVeg Wrote

Mikhail Dragoslav wrote:
She's extremely adorable...and dumb as a post.

Is she as dumb as this post?

Casveg,
I don't get it. Every time I try your link I end up opening a new window only
to find me back right where I started. I did it six times and it just open the
same place in a new browser every time. Did you post the same link that
you were on? That's makes no sense. That would be pretty du.... Ah Never Mind...

SolidusRaccoon · Post by **SolidusRaccoon** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 4:41 am

We have GSPs, they get their tails nipped when they are very young pupd.

Madmoonie · Post by **Madmoonie** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 1:37 pm

One question....does it really.......matter?

StrangeWulf13 · Post by **StrangeWulf13** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 6:37 pm

No. But with this group, you can expect them to debate and discuss just about anything, even if it doesn't relate to the comic.

One thread in another forum has found them debating the size and shape of a certain purple pig-sticker even though it has little to do with the current plot or storyline.

...which, btw, I got tired of by the third post where they didn't take Quentyn's word that it was his sword. =P Who's telling the story? Us or the Questor?

*grumbles and walks off*

Madmoonie · Post by **Madmoonie** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:44 pm

(nervously sticks up hand)

Um.....the questor?

Deflare · Post by **Deflare** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:10 pm

Madmoonie wrote:One question....does it really.......matter?

Very dangerous question to ask. This forum is based around discussing a comic strip, among other interesting topics. Very little of what is discussed here really matters; we just do it as a break from reality.

Madmoonie · Post by **Madmoonie** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 1:44 am

Ummm......I was just think....we still have yet to have seen Ben's parents. What have they been doing since we....wellm we have never HAVE actually seen, at least in present. Or his sister for that matter.

NydaLynn · Post by **NydaLynn** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 12:13 am

Ben has a sister?

Madmoonie · Post by **Madmoonie** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 4:52 am

Yes. Remeber the story about him and the peeps? He mentioned that he has a sister.

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