Unfortunately, it still happens. In some medical situations, vets may perform a procedure called a pinnectomy that can look like the ears have been cropped. This is only done in the case of disease of the ears and is more usually required in white cats who can sometimes get skin cancer. The procedure is allowed when there are clear medical reasons - clearly very different to when ears are surgically altered for cosmetic reasons.
Tail docking is another procedure that is illegal unless carried out by a vet for medical reasons - and having a 'working dog' is not an exemption to the rule.
No dogs should have their ears cropped. Hearing - Dogs' ears can move independently of one another and move towards the direction of sound so that they can be positioned in the optimal place for hearing. The outer ear is shaped to capture sound waves and funnel them into the ear canal and towards the eardrum. It's not yet known whether surgical changes such as ear cropping affects hearing but it's possible.
Communicating - Dogs use their ears to help us, and other animals, understand how they're feeling. Without their ears, dogs have fewer ways of communicating with us. Body language - Where a dog's ears are placed, also known as their ear carriage, can help us understand if a dog is worried or happy and relaxed. If a dog's ears have been removed, it can be more difficult to know how they're feeling. Dogs like Jess pictured are victims of these very reports. The two-year-old cane corso was saved by our rescue team earlier this year along with a litter of six pups.
She'd had her tail docked and her ears almost entirely removed. She was - unsurprisingly - incredibly wary of people and it took staff months to build up her confidence and ability to trust. We fear increased numbers are being driven by dogs who are being sent abroad to have their ears cropped or who are being purchased and imported from countries where cropping is still legal.
The practise of ear cropping is legal in America and other European countries. Dogs, though, shouldn't be treated as objects that we can morph on a whim with drastic measures just because we don't like something about them. But it's the breed standard! Well, if a dog is born with floppy ears because that's how we bred them to be, who are we to decide one day that it's no longer acceptable?
More and more dog owners are straying away from standards because they have no purpose. Most dogs are no longer working dogs, and fortunately, dog fighting is outlawed in most places. So unless you are planning to show your dog in the ring and plan to win a lot of trophies, what's the purpose? Dog owners who refuse to crop and dock tails have come to appreciate their dogs for who they truly are.
People and breeders really have grown accustomed to cropped ears. They associate them with the breed standard. They have been fixated on the idea that pinnas must be erect, and they believe that refraining from having them that way makes their dogs look like half a dog. They fear changes, and they feel their dog breed is stripped from its dignity and breed status.
They are perhaps also afraid to be ridiculed by others. Yet, humanity evolves, and often for the better. Jets fly faster; we reach out to others with a click of a mouse, we talk from different countries. The day may also come where dogs will be different from what they are now. We may actually laugh at our mistakes, just as the first cars developed made us smile.
Ear piercing is to ear cropping like an injection to an arm is to an arm amputation. There is really a lot of differences. Ear piercing requires no anesthesia, whereas ear cropping requires total general anesthesia. Ear piercing consists of a little needle prick, and the procedure is over. Ear cropping consists of general anesthesia and weeks of recovery and bandages.
People would not get their ears pierced as often if they had to go through general anesthesia and getting almost more than half their ear chopped off! Many pro-ear-croppers, when confronted with the unnecessary practice of ear cropping, may state that if the practice is considered painful, then people must not spay or neuter their pets.
However, there is a big difference in this scenario. Spaying and neutering can help prevent some diseases such as testicular cancer and pyometra. More of all, it prevents hundreds of dogs from being euthanized because of the pet overpopulation problem. If you visit a shelter, you will see how many dogs are put to sleep a day, and that is disgusting until we as humans learn to be responsible owners. Interestingly, some exemplary countries have started to not neuter, and yet, they are not contributing to the pet overpopulation problem.
This is because they are being very responsible and adamant about not letting their dogs roam free. Sure, you can crop your dog's ears, but what is the purpose? It's not medically necessary. You are not going to show your dog in the ring.
Who cares what others think? If you just like the look, admit it's for that purpose. Don't come up with millions of excuses just to justify that. However, consider that dogs are not fashion accessories and shouldn't be primarily used to boost a human's ego. Ear cropping is taken seriously and banned in many countries nowadays. The right was taken away in these countries because the practice interferes with the dog's well-being and has been deemed unnecessary.
Dogs use ears for communication, and dogs cropped very shortly think battle crop no longer can use them to communicate effectively. These dogs also have little protection against bugs and other irritants from entering the ear canal. There is proof that the procedure is not a walk in the park. Pain meds are often prescribed for recovery. Puppies may yelp as they hit their ears against furniture.
They are obliged to wear cones for many weeks to allow the ears to stand up correctly. Owners and breeders often may say that their dogs act normally, but dogs are very well known for their stoicism. And since dogs cannot talk, it is unfair to presume that they are free of pain. You may have heard that many dog breeds are cropped to help them be good guard dogs and to therefore hear better. How true is this? Well, it may help to a minimum, perhaps. An ear flap shouldn't impact hearing to a significant extent of making dogs with floppy ears poor guardians, just like having humans can still hear if they have long hair in front of their ears.
But don't take my word for this: consider that there are amazing guardian dogs such as Rottweilers who have floppy ears and are alert to all noises. It is true; the Animal Welfare Organization may focus on bigger issues than ear cropping. But then why should owners spend so much money for dog cosmetic surgery when they can donate to shelters or other charities? There are so many more proficuous ways to spend money other than turning dogs into fashion accessories.
Ears have a function, and there is a reason why dogs were born with a complete set of ears. Floppy ears help prevent water from going into the ear canal and protect the ears from insects and burrs and other irritants.
Dogs need their ears to effectively communicate their feelings, keep debris and bugs away, and last but not least, as a statement of who they are and who they were meant to be. More and more dogs are showing their full-length ears, and long tails as owners and breeders are educated about the disadvantages and unneccessity of ear cropping.
It is not meant to substitute for diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, prescription, or formal and individualized advice from a veterinary medical professional. Animals exhibiting signs and symptoms of distress should be seen by a veterinarian immediately. How so if neutering decreases the chances of male dogs developing prostatic disease and hernias, and eliminates the chances of developing testicular cancer and spaying leads to reduced risk of female dogs developing mammary tumors, the canine equivalent of breast cancer?
Sure, there can be health issues too, but have you ever visited a dog shelter and seen how many dogs are put to sleep every day because people's dogs keep on popping unwanted dogs?
I have heard the cropping to prevent injuries thing for some time, but this makes me wonder why many serious guardian dog breeds such as Rottweilers, bullmastiff, Fila brasiliero, Brazilian dogo and boerboel are for a good part uncropped and have been providing guard duties with no problems for centuries. This article has nothing to do with ''Myths'' it's your personal opinion about the cropping community more or so no.
Also Ear cropping and tail docking were used for guard dogs and hunting dogs. Also dobermans are used as K-9 and military dogs. Where they crop the animals ears to prevent injuries while working floppy ears can be easily grabbed and torn off by invaders or offenders. Many people may excuse this as ''I wouldn't think of such thing'' but it's because you never commited a crime.
Just because someone gets their dog's ear cropped doesn't mean they are bad human beings and that they are abusing their animals. Also, spaying and neutering brings more long term health issues into account than cropping. The Neutering and Spaying is bs. I almost started crying when I saw pictures of dogs post-crop It's not cute or fun or whatever Get over your own ego and stop cropping ears!
I live in the country, as in miles from an airport. My nearest neighbor is a mile Literally a mile straight shot and they are meth heads. My chickens get raided all the time by coyotes and they run in packs, also there are mountain lion, and black bears.
I have a wife and kids to protect so I also have a pit bull, two dogo Argentino, and two great Pyrenees and a gun safe that looks like I'm preparing for WW3. The dogos and pit all have cropped ears for hog hunting and to keep them from getting injured by fighting off the crack head neighbors, dogs, and coyotes. Not everyone lives in town and there are still working dog's, my dogs have job's and work hard.
Well three ears between the two of them, one lost an ear early on in a scrap with something and that's why I got other breeds and cropped the ears. Julian, that's true that several dog breeds were cropped for working purposes, but most dogs nowadays cropped are just kept as pets.
Floppy ears would be very prone to being torn by tusks or horns so they are cropped to prevent those injuries. APBT and Dogo are both still commonly used as catch dogs by those that hunt wild boar with dogs.
I meant to change the picture of the Rottweiler puppy forever, but couldn't find a picture of a Dobie left with floppy ears. I will search one to fix that. This makes the issue of cropping even more disturbing: we first selectively breed dogs for certain qualities and floppy ears come with the package and then decide to crop them.
How fair is that? That just shows how unpredictable and hypocritical human kind is. I need to edit to add that according to research, the German shepherd which has erect ears is ironically one of the most predisposed to ear infections. Again, I witnessed this over and over working at the vet's office, so I am providing an insider view.
And more and more vets are refusing to perform them. Look at all the wild cousins of our domesticated dog: wolves, coyotes, jackals, African prairie dogs, dingos Now look at every other animal for that matter: lions, tigers, bears, hyenas, badgers, raccoons, skunks, even your house cat and yes, even us humans all have erect ears where the ear canal is exposed.
Before humans started breeding dogs to serve man, all dogs had erect ears. This ritual they perform almost on a daily basis is due to discomfort of having ones ears covered and not properly ventilated.
Fourth, certain breed standards call for the cropped ears because it mitigated certain risk factors while in the commission of certain jobs they were bred to perform, which for the sake of space and time I will not bother listing here. Lastly, just like in humans and with certain cultures that practise generational incestual marriage, certain physical abnormalities can develop in their offspring, therefore, centuries of certain breeds being inbred by imperfect humans can develop physical defects and I believe that overly, pendulous ears is a direct result of inbreeding and human interference and is not how nature intended it to be.
Who made you the judge n jury of these animals to begin with? All-in-all, it boils down to preference and while most ppl errr women might think long floppy ears looks flattering on a dog, others will think the opposite I am one of those ppl. Thanks for reading! Perhaps you should read it over again carefully. Adrienne Janet Farricelli if you honestly believe what you said then you have no clue what you are saying.
Having a male dog spayed calms the dog down and also helps them to not get so stressed whenever they smell a female in heat. You would never be able to control your dog every moment if he ran into a female that was in heat at a public place or a dog park, which is why they are too many dogs. My daughter has a pit bull his name Is Bentley his ears were cropped already when she got him , the person who did this did not know what the - - - - they were doing!
Bentley shakes his head black gooey junk comes out he has scratched his ears to wear they bleed. So please make sure they know how,and what they are doing. Girnipointer, you make great points. I am impressed how neutering is not performed much in certain European countries and this is because they know how to manage well their intact dogs. It often calms a temperament, stops them running off in pursuit of a mate, but most importantly lowers the risk of cancer and other disease and helps to reduce the population of millions of unwanted pets that are dumped or put to sleep each year.
If neutering vs. It is actually possible to be a responsible pet owner with intact pets assuming the owner takes responsibility for containing their pets properly. I grew up with intact male dogs and none of them impregnated females or died of prostate cancer. With that being said, I am for spaying and neutering, as I believe the majority of pet owners do not properly contain their dogs at all times. Women who get hysterectomies are known to go into early menopause, so hormones clearly play a role in the body.
I am for ear cropping, tail docking, etc. For instance, if a Dobie is being used as a guard dog--trained and raised for just that for his job, not as a family pet who so happens to also scare away would-be thieves--then crop the ears to protect his ears and face, as that's what the docking was originally for.
Same with tails and herding dogs. It would hurt the dog and cost the owner more to have to deal with a trodden tail than it would to have it cropped.
But if the dog is only being kept as a family pet, then keep both ears and tail as they were. God bless my parents had me circumcised without asking me.. Spaying and neutering is not medically necessary, and going by your own argument, the dog is born that way and you are simply doing it for convenience. Breed standards are written by humans, not nature, so if the standard says crop, you crop. Also some breeds, like the Doberman, are bred to be guard dogs, and ear cropping prevents severe injury from a someone grabbing the ear and ripping it off.
I think ear cropping and tail docking is not only cruel and a horrible practice, but think it should be banned workd wide!!
Sorry I disagree, My Doberman had her ears docked, they gave her pain meds which this article did not mention! If you don't want a Doberman don't get one, but don't criticize those that do!! The problem is that ear cropping amounts to nothing more than forced mutilation so that poorly informed owners can make their dog what they deem to be prettier or fiercer.
They often argue that floppy, natural ears should be chopped off because they're prone to infection. But that's not true. In fact, research shows that ear shape has little effect on the risk of a dog getting an infection. At least 80 percent of dogs never contract one at all. The ones who do get the most infections are poodles and spaniels, breeds whose ears typically aren't cropped anyway. Puppies usually endure ear cropping as young as 6 to 12 weeks old. Once the ears have been cut with scissors, the pups then wear tape and bandages around them for several weeks.
During the surgery, the dogs are placed under a general anesthesia, which can sometimes lead to swelling from allergic reactions or bigger complications , like anaphylactic shock.
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