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Dog vent..NBR
Flame me if you will, but am I the only one who is against cropping dogs ears (boxers, dobermans, pitbulls, great danes, etc) I am a certified vet tech and know the protocol needed to perform this procedures and it is an extremely painful, unnecessary, completely for vanity's sake surgery to put a puppy through IMO. I compare it to getting your baby plastic surgery to look more like how you think they should.
Sorry for the random vent, but there is a dobie puppy in my apartment building that was the cutest little thing and I just saw them walking it outside and its ears are cropped and all wrapped up in gauze and it ticked me off.. 
..vent over..
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Re: Dog vent..NBR
I have a boxer and we did not crop his ears, I guess we didn't see any reason to. We also don't remove the dew claws on our dogs and haven't had any problems with that in 6 years and 3 dogs.
P.S. hopefully no crazies turn this into a circ debate :S
I love my boxer's floppy ears.
I was totally thinking this when I read this post. lol
I'm against cropping for vanity's sake, but I understand sometimes it's necessary. I had a friend who got his dog's tail cropped after a year of bandaging the tail and cleaning blood off the walls. His dog would bang his tail against everything so hard that the skin would split. He tried to wrap it at first, but the dog would just pull it off.
I love floppy ears. They are so much cuter.
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I've seen this happen..In that situation that's sometimes the only option.
this!
I have a patterdale terrier whose tail is docked and would have never done it myself if she didn't already have it done when we got her. I personally think terriers look adorable with long tails haha. I just can't bring myself to cause unnecessary pain to my fur babies.
I do admit we have 2 cats and one of them is declawed in the front as the choice was 1. have him stay and have our furniture clawed to shreads, 2. find him a new home- which we could never do he's our family, 3. declaw. Our other cat learned to use his scratch post and was deterred by a water bottle when he did try and scratch the furniture and has been very good, this one was a stray and has a mind of his own and just could not get that he was being bad by scratching everything in sight except his scratch post! He's now 2 and to this day (caught him yesterday!) he scratches the furniture, the walls, the carpeted stairs... like he has nails. We tried to keep them cut (still ruins everything when he scratches) and I had even heard of these caps that go over the nails but my vet said they were a waste and fall off easily (maybe he just wanted my $$). Overall I am against it, I've had other cats in my life and have never declawed or even thought of it until we adopted the devil!
All my fur babies are fixed, both cats were strays (the dog wasn't a stray but was unwanted by her breader so we adopted her for free), there are so many unwanted animals out there because so many animals go unfixed. I am all for adopting
Plus if my animals did get knocked up I would own a zoo because my FI is dr doolittle and brings in stray animals all the time to save and neither of us would be able to get rid of the babies, we would get too attached!.
It's a vanity thing - if you are showing your dog it's part of the rules for those breeds to be cropped. Which is also stupid, but it likely had some purpose back when the dog was actually being used for a real job rather than to win medals at the Westminster.
Cropping ears/tails on a dog that's a family owned pet is ridiculous and unnecessary. The number of people that don't recognize a breed when someone hasn't cropped drives me insane too, although I'm crazy like that.
the AKC has made it optional now to crop ears for show dogs(certain breeds). It used to be required. So for most people its just a matter of "tradition" vs regulation. Which means, they are just old school d-bags.
sorry I am SOOO bored.
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I completely agree with you. Cropping ears is cruel. I have 3 mini schnauzers and all have natural ears. This is my Lucy and I love her crazy big stick up ears.
so does mine! I told him we will have to get LO's ears circumcised
That is one cute lil furbaby! She has teddy bear ears
DH's bff has a pit and they are not getting his tail or ears cropped, there is no medical reason to do so. All our dogs (he has two and so do we) are spayed/neutered, because that is a necessity for us.
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I completely agree, I've had minitature schnauzers and a weim, the breeders cropped the tails and the ears of the minis and the weim had a terrible crop done to her tail! I can't stand it! I know it hurts and it's not worth it! My kitty will keep her claws at all costs!!
As Bob always says, Please spay and neuter your pets.
Back in the day they originally cropped floppy ears and tails to prevent them from getting ripped off during hunting or in the fighting ring. That being said, there's generally no reason to do it anymore.
Exceptions would be if the dog gets "happy tail" (sores from constantly banging into things while wagging) or if they're prone to hematomas (blood pockets) in their ears.
I hate seeing people do this to furry babies for no reason; especially when you see the all too common botch job. Poor kids. Same goes for de-clawing. Buy some nail trimmers and stick some double sided tape up for a month. They'll stop.