I've heard of the band thing before too for the tails and other things. Sounds awful to me. Poor pup, I hope he comes to his senses soon and realizes that the pup is too old to go through that now, or at least I think so. At work today we had a litter of JRTs come in to have their tails docked and they are only like a few days old. So there I can understand. Niki had her's done at a few days of age too. Poor little rotty....