Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: Equine Cosmetic Crimes and Other Tails of Woe
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EQUINE COSMETIC CRIMES AND OTHER
TAILS OF WOE
By
Sandra Tozzini*
Many invasive procedures, including surgery, are performed on horses' tails
purely for cosmetic reasons. These procedures fall into a variety of categories
from the arguably unethical to the undoubtedly criminal. Although crimi-
nal laws prohibiting certain cosmetic surgeries have been in existence for
approximately one hundred years, they rarely have been enforced. This arti-
cle reviews the current status of both American and international anti-cos-
metic statutes, focusing on the constitutional problems that the current
American statutes raise. The article proposes a model federal statute that is
constitutionally sound, addresses all forms of cosmetic tail procedures, and
provides a vehicle for enforcement.
I. INTRODUCTION ......................................... 160
II. D O CK IN G ............................................... 161
A. Definition and History of the Practice ................... 161
B. United States Statutes ................................. 162
1. Perpetrators ....................................... 163
2. A ssistants ......................................... 165
3. Possessors and Custodians of Horses ................ 165
4. H orse Owners ...................................... 166
Landowners and Others with Possessory Property
5. Interests ........................................... 167
C. International Statutes ................................. 168
III. N ICKIN G ................................................ 169
A. Introduction and History ............................... 169
B. United States Statutes ................................. 169
C. International Statutes ................................. 170
* © Sandra Tozzini 2003. Sandra Tozzini is Assistant Professor of Law and Dean of
Students at the University of La Verne College of Law in Ontario, California. She has
taught seminars in both animal law and equine law. She is a graduate of Hastings
College of the Law, and she served both an externship and a clerkship with the Califor-
nia Supreme Court. She has been an invited speaker at the British Equine Lawyers
Association and the San Diego County Bar Association's Animal Law section. For four
years, she has been a speaker at the annual Western States Equine Law Conference,
and she has served as a panelist on the multi-disciplinary roundtable discussion on the
Legal and Ethical Uses of Horses. She also serves as the legal advisor for Interna-
tional Alliance for Animal Therapy and Healing, a non-profit holistic equine medical
association. She is currently an editorial advisory board member for Horse Law: The
Equine and Animal Law Reports, and she has served as the editor and publisher of
Horse Law News.
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