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