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Originally Posted by YorkOfTheShire  Clarifying: I'm not saying that animal rights activists are wrong. In fact, I'm against cropping ears because that is painful for the dog and with all the advances being made in the field of veterinary medicine, there are many things they can do to combat ear infections and yeast infections in dogs with 'floppy' ears (many things owners can do as well). I think the acceptable standards for AKC breeds that require cropped ears needs to change (my opinion).
Dews though --those pesky little things get snagged on stuff on a daily basis, but the vet did say "yes, unfortunately he will have quite a bit of pain in recovery if you choose to do it at this age." He doesn't recommend it now, it's too late and should have been done when he was a few days old...and wasn't. |
I don't get the ear cropping at all. Is it just because people don't like them floppy? Callie is 5 and has floppy ears and has never had an ear infection just some irritation when allergies where bad. I love floppy ears. The beagle mix the we had growing up has such long floppy ears the tips would go into the water bowl whenever he would drink.