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Originally Posted by diane boden  This is an intresting thread for me, I used to love rooting out old yorkie books at sales and in some of the older ones the breed standard allowed errect or semi-errect ears. Something that was brought in after the ban on ear cropping came into effect. |
I guess there's no way to know for sure, but when I look at those old photos and drawings, it seems like I can tell which ones ears were cropped. I've been around a lot of Dobies with cropped ears, and it seems like the ear profile is different that any natural ear I've seen and some of the very early Yorkies have that (cropped) profile.