i believe it is wrong as well to change an animal for our benifit..... but some dogs have their dew claws removed because they can actually be ripped off when the dog is running on rough terrain and can cause a more serious injury..... bernese mountain dogs have them removed for this reason.... we breed our dog and have the puppies extra toes removed only because many of the other people who have bernese mountain dogs with their extra toes have been injured multiple times and some of them had been injured so many times that they eventually had to get them done anyways..... i believe that changing them to make them look better is wrong, but if it is done in the right fashion by a profesional and is for the benifit of the animal it is ok.