Using professional equipment, detailed instructions, and links to instructional videos, you will use our elastrator and bands to painlessly dock tails and remove dewclaws with minimal pain. Kit includes professional medical equipment and instructions needed to dock tails and remove dewclaws on puppies or other infant animals from birth to five day of age with the least amount of pain or trauma. No experience necessary, but a helper is recommended to hold squirming babies. Instructions included for use on puppies.
Suitable for all breeds. This kit has been used by thousands of breeders of very large breeds as well as small breeds with birth weights 4oz and even below. The bands that come with the kit are 1/8” diameter and have been used successfully on small to medium tails as well as on large breed tails. Bands are typically doubled over the elastrator prongs for very tiny puppies. Please order a set of 3/16" bands if you have a very tiny breed to make it easier to double the bands over the prongs. Detailed instructions are included for all size puppies.
We use all of this equipment in our own puppy nursery and love the quality. There are lesser quality elastrators on the market that are flimsy and not recommended for this delicate work. Be cautious as there are also copycat docking kits that have shown up all over the Internet that use bands that aren't suitable for puppies and can cause irreparable damage and even death. Please purchase your kit here where you can be assured of the quality, experience and excellent instructions provided by over four decades of experience.
Disclaimer: The Dog Breeder Store does not diagnose or treat illnesses or injury in pets and accepts no liability for misuse of equipment or results that are less than optimal, injury or death relative to use of this equipment or instructions. Consult a licensed veterinarian if you suspect that your pet is experiencing pain or infection.
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Economy Kit contents:
Stainless Steel Elastrator
Package of 100 colored bands 1/8” medium weight
3"-4" Stainless Steel Mosquito Forceps
Stainless Steel Suture Scissors with a tiny hook to place under dewclaw toe
Detailed instructions with photos and instructional video links
Email assistance if you need guidance – please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Standard Kit contents:
+15 ml bottle Young Living Mendwell
Includes all of the Standard Kit contents listed above, plus a 15 ml bottle of Young Living Mendwell for aftercare. Mendwell is highly recommended to accelerate healthy skin repair and reduce scarring. It is an all-natural therapeutic grade essential oil blend alternative to traditional antibiotics and antifungals. Mendwell can be used for healthy skin repair for the entire family including animals and humans. In our practice we see wounds healing in about half the normal time and with significantly less scarring.
See an instructional video here:
https://youtu.be/qqM0R_C6vNI
If you are whelping puppies, you might want to add more forceps to your order so that you can clamp the umbilical cord in two places when the placenta is not yet delivered - cut between and keep the cord from going back inside while you clean the puppy. Clamp at 90 degree angle to bitch so she isn't injured by the forceps. This can help prevent umbilical hernia. We like to have several of both sizes available in my whelping kit in case we have puppies born back to back.
