Showing with a tail

Since Tilly is born in Sweden, after 1989, she have a tail. Sweden was the second country, Norway was first, to have a law against docking. If you have been used to docked Old English Sheepdogs the tail can definitely put you in a state where you don't know if you should laugh or cry. When standing still it's the same outline as before but when the dog is moving there's a dramatic change of outline. No tail looks like the other. It takes a long time but when you realize that the breed you once fell in love with, is what's in front of the tail, well.... then you stay with the breed and keep on loving it. One gets used to the tail, and can ignore it, even if I always will prefer the looks of a docked one.

And one more thing - unlike what everybody thinks - there's no problem with dirty back ends, it still happens but not as often as with the docked ones. Like with everything else there is always some good and some bad points.

 

 
NoTown's Old English Sheepdogs
Old English sheepdog
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Old English sheepdog, NoTown's Tequila Sunrise, Tilly Show