Molly’s tail is crooked. This isn’t a great photo of it, but you can see it plainly here.
Sometime before we adopted her, her tail broke and healed that way. When Molly’s name was still Buttons and Lea was getting to know her a little bit, the lady helping her said “now her tail is crooked, but don’t worry, we’ll just dock it.”
Wow.
Now this lady is trained to overcome objections and find animals homes, right? So I took that as her having experience with adoptions in which that was the difference. Seriously, fellow man? You’re going to rescue a mutt, but dock her tail?
When Lea told me the story, I asked her “do you want to dock her tail?” She said no, and that was it.
I like Molly’s crooked tail. And I’m glad we might have saved it for her.
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