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[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 49 points 5 months ago

Ear cropping is so pointless.

[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

It's evil, I love my rescued girl to death. But man I'd like to meet the assholes who cropped her ears in a dark alley.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

The good thing is, she almost certainly doesn't remember or care about it now. But why put her through that then?

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 5 months ago

They probably fucked up his tail, too D:

[-] needthosepylons@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago
[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yes, it's pretty commonly done to some breeds of dogs with naturally floppy ears. They should look like the big guy's ears in this picture:

[-] needthosepylons@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

You learn something everyday. My knee-jerk reaction : such a shame to mutilate pets so they look like what we want..

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Your knee-jerk reaction is correct!

[-] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

They do, it's unfortunate. We had an English springer spaniel growing up, and went to get him as a puppy. They had already docked his tail and didn't want to give him to us before doing his ears, and we were just like "oh no no, let us pay for that", they agreed, and then we never spoke to them again and his ears remained lovely and floppy.

He did have to wag his entire butt though because of the tail, unfortunately.

[-] LordCrom@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

My vet told me to consider it because my floppy eared hound dog gets chronic ear infections.

Can I get a medical exemption on the ear cropping anger please?

[-] teamevil@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Oh my God my o Plott hound's war was a yeast factory despite medicine.

[-] LordCrom@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

You too? My plott has a full on biome in her ear

[-] teamevil@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Unfortunately he's playing with all of our pets on the rainbow bridge now, but my God I felt awful because it seemed like nothing would work to kill the infection (vet meds) and he just had itchy ears...

I can't wait to adopt/rescue my next stubborn ass Plott

[-] LordCrom@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I had to resort to a noflap ear wrap....looks like she's wearing a babushka. At least that keeps her from scratching it raw

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Yes, if there's a medical reason it's okay. But in most cases it's for aesthetic reasons, not medical.

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