Possible Clues:

• Unsatisfactory tip causing disgust
• Be a docker, perhaps, and be 28 across
• Perhaps such tail removal may cause pain
• To cut off the tail may hurt others as well
• It's a hurtful thing to do to cut the tail away
• Bad curtains cause annoyance
• It will cause pain to remove the tail like this
• A bad tip does raise hackles
• Sin of female facing death
• Break law