Snowy and Blackie were stumped. What was this balding, middle-aged man trying to do with a dirty doctor's robe? Why had the young Rottweiler's owner brought them here too?
Zhang Zian had a reasonable guess and lowered his voice to explain to them, "They're here to do tail docking."
"Tail docking?"
This was a completely foreign term to them. They had heard of lizards dropping their tails for survival purposes, but even dogs would do it too?
"Have you not noticed? All the corgis, poodles, and schnauzers that you have seen in the market have really short tails. Some of them might even not have one," Zhang Zian said.
"That…" Snowy gave it a thought. "I thought they were born with short tails or without them. Wasn't there a saying that 'a rabbit's tail would never grow long'?"