Personally, I'm neither against or for docking and cropping. I prefer the appearance of all natural Dobes though. This entire topic has been posted over and over again though, I'm sure if you do a search tons of these threads will come up. Alyssa, have you done a lot of research on the breed? If not, I suggest you do so as they're certainly not a breed for everyone and they can come with quite a few health issues......