Is there any way to exlude certain tags from listing

Hi,

I use <?php the_tags('Tags:', ', ', '<br />'); ?> to display all the tags that are attributed to a particular post. But there are some tags which I don’t want displayed even though these tags are attributed to the post.

So for example if I gave a post called “Goat” the tags “animal”, “herbivore” and “docile” and I didn’t want the “docile” tag to be displayed what would I have to do? There is an easy way to exclude certain categories from being listed based on their ids (and with a functions.php hack) but I can’t seem to use the same for tags.

Any help is highly appreciated!