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That’s not typically what we call happy tail. Happy Tail is when a dog wags so hard they hit their tail on objects and walls and break the skin or even break the bone.

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I have had a vet call exactly what it said as happy tail.

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Same. Basically a strain.

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I have two of those models but apparently their tails are factory reinforced, as every object the tails collide with is either broken or irreversibly damaged. And walls, door and furniture are fun to bang on.

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We have one of those models, the most recent item to meet the destructive force of his tail was the glass to our china cabinet, shattered.

Obligatory picture of said model.

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The image does not load for me but I just know he is one of those that goes around with the standard “What? Wasn’t me!” expression after spreading mayhem and destruction.

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Yeah, years ago I was living in a house with a room mate. behind/below the stairs that ended at the front door was a small hall between a general room and the kitchen. We watched his his sister’s dogs for a few days, a great dane and a bernese. Big, but well trained, lovable, lunks.

One day I am on my way home and he calls to ask if I can swing by his work and pick him up. We get home and enter the house. It looked like something out of a horror movie. Large streaks of blood splattered on EVERYTHING. The dogs are already greeting us and seem fine. We see his cat at the top of the stairs, looks just fine. We walk all over the house looking for what the fuck happened. Eventually we have to stop to let the dog out, on their way out the door my room mate noticed the dark gray fur on the dane’s tail was matted with something. It was scabbing.

We checked out cameras and he spent almost 3 hours walking back, and forth, through that hall just wailing on the walls with his damned tail. It began bleeding and he was just slinging blood everywhere he went.

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I had a roommate whose dog would occasionally clear off the entire coffee table, without any apparent knowledge that anything had happened behind her. Despite debris suddenly flying in most directions from her butt area. I guess that just happens, you know?

It was basically always funny, but we mostly just had drinks and small stuff so nothing too immobile a lot of times the cans would be dented by the tail force.

She was a good dog. My roommate was convinced that she wouldn’t get on the furniture, but she was always on something. It’s how I knew he’d be home in a minute. She’d get up and he’d walk in. lol

She’d also get on your lap at a glacial pace, over a period of like twenty minutes she would gradually move from floor getting scratches to lap getting scratches.

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Who’s “we”?

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From the context of their comment, I would presume the majority of people who know the term

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Makes sense.

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we, dogs on the internet

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People who work with dogs

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Presumably they are a vet or vet tech

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I adopted my dog from the local shelter. They had to remove the tip of her tail because she had a happy tail so bad that she had bone deep cuts. They had first tried to stitch the wounds, but she popped the stitches and made the wounds worse. Thankfully, she doesn’t have the happy tail affliction anymore. I guess that ‘happy’ is a misnomer. Her excessive tail wagging was more of a stress/anxiety behavior.

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You guys rush to the hospital because of a dying child?

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You compare a broken tail to a dying child?

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Yeah they used hyperbole for no reason, I’d compare it to a child having a broken toe, in which case, yes, I would personally go to a hospital right away.

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You guys rush?

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🅱️

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Big time

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Fly by night if have to

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Yes, we are capable of empathy for pain and suffering.

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Man up, dog. Just do a shot of whiskey and pop that tail back into place and bandage it up while smoking a cigar.

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What’s “up dog”?

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not much how about you

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…You wouldn’t?

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I’d likely wait until my vet is open rather than go to emergency vet. She was in the emergency vet for 24 hours and that was $2600. Unfortunately the emergency vet we’ve used in the past got bought by Blue Pearl. Very nice but very expensive.

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