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THE PUPPY room in the basement brimmed with youngness, with suckings, cuddlings, lickings, squirmings--puppies whose eyes were sealed against seeing, puppies whose ears were sealed against hearing for the first ten days of life, puppies rolling around in their mother's box like sausages, heavy in the middle and with four legs foolishly sticking out sideways, rowing aimlessly and quite unable to support the weight of their bodies.
Some Bobtails are born entirely tailless, some have tails which are docked at the age of three days, some have stumps, some twists.