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 ::::I don't have a strong feeling about this and will leave it to you and the other watchers of this page to make the decision. However, I will note that tendonectomy is the removal of non-regenerative tissue for the purpose of altering the form or function of an animal, which sounds like ""mutilation"" to me, under both the commonly-understood defintion and the definition used in this article. Again, however, that's just my off-the-cuff opinion, and I don't have a strong opinion either way about including tendonectony."