Love Your Dog As They Are
The unecessary and cruel act of Ear Cropping Dogs has once again become a heated debate on my professional page and the other blogs I interact with.
My view on this practice is in complete aggreement with the below Wikipedia explaination.
If a person adopts a dog, but feels they need to alter the dogs appearence purley for the visual pleasure of the human, then that human doesn't deserve the dog!
If your human child was born with a hair color you are not too fond of would you dye it so you would be happy looking at your child, if you wanted your human child to be born with your eye color instead of your spouses would you make the kid where colored contacts!
What is wrong with people? Are dog owners who crop theire dogs ears simply to please themselves that vain, that shallow, that cruel? We are talking about living beings here not toys!
This reminds of one of the many tradgedies I witnessed while working for the HSUS. A woman had the audacity to surrender her cat and the pure arrogance to tell us that she had remodeled her home and the cats coloring did not match her new color scheme throughout the house!
My beloved Morty who has been with me since 1994, was surrendered after three months of enduring torcher by a one year old and three year old brats whose Mom purchased him as a toy for them to play with. I hope people like this someday will rot in the Hell they are perpetuating. Some people make me sick and ashamed to be part of the human race.
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Cropping is the removal of part or all of the pinnae or auricles, the external visible flap of the ear, of an animal. Most commonly performed on dogs, it is an ancient practice that was once done for perceived health, practical or cosmetic reasons. In modern times, it is banned in many nations, but where legal, it is usually performed for cosmetic reasons, usually related to show grooming. It is seen only in certain breeds of dog such as the Pit bull, Doberman Pinscher, Schnauzer, Great Dane and Boxer.
The veterinary procedure is known as cosmetic otoplasty. Current veterinary science provides no medical, physical, environmental or cosmetic advantage to the animal from the procedure,[1][2] leading to concerns over animal cruelty related to performing unnecessary surgery on the animals. In addition to the bans in place in countries around the world, it is described in some veterinary texts as "no longer considered ethical."[1]
Cropping of large portions of the pinnae of other animals is rare, although the clipping of identifying shapes in the pinnae of livestock, called earmarks, were common prior to the introduction of compulsory ear tags.[3] The practice of cropping for cosmetic purposes is rare in non-canines, although some selectively bred animals have naturally small ears which can be mistaken for cropping.
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Traditional cropping
Historically, cropping was performed on dogs that might need to fight, either while hunting animals that might fight back or while defending livestock herds from predators, or because they were used for pit-fighting sports such as dogfighting or bear-baiting.[5][6] The ears were an easy target for an opposing animal to grab or tear.[5]
Cropping the ears of livestock guardian dogs was, and may still be, traditional in some pastoral cultures. The ears of working flock-defense dogs such as the Caucasian Shepherd Dog (Kavkazskaïa Ovtcharka)[7] and the Pastore Maremmano-Abruzzese were traditionally cropped to reduce the possibility of wolves or aggressor dogs getting a hold on them.[8] According to one description, cropping was carried out when puppies were weaned, at about six weeks. It was performed by an older or expert shepherd, using the ordinary blade shears used for shearing, well sharpened. The ears were cut either to a point like those of a fox, of rounded like those of a bear. The removed auricles were given to the puppy to eat, in the belief that it would make him more "sour";[8] the ears were first grilled.[9] An alternative method was to remove the ears from newly-born puppies by twisting them off; however, this left almost no external ear on the dog.[8] Cropping was done to improve the dogs' chance of survival in combat with wolves and other predators; they wore heavy spiked iron collars for the same reason.[8] Three hundred years earlier, both ear-cropping and the use of spiked collars were described as a defense against wolves by Jean de la Fontaine in Fable 9 of Book X of the Fables, published in 1678.[10]
Dogs may have their ears cropped, legally or not, for participation in dogfights, themselves illegal in many jurisdictions
My view on this practice is in complete aggreement with the below Wikipedia explaination.
If a person adopts a dog, but feels they need to alter the dogs appearence purley for the visual pleasure of the human, then that human doesn't deserve the dog!
If your human child was born with a hair color you are not too fond of would you dye it so you would be happy looking at your child, if you wanted your human child to be born with your eye color instead of your spouses would you make the kid where colored contacts!
What is wrong with people? Are dog owners who crop theire dogs ears simply to please themselves that vain, that shallow, that cruel? We are talking about living beings here not toys!
This reminds of one of the many tradgedies I witnessed while working for the HSUS. A woman had the audacity to surrender her cat and the pure arrogance to tell us that she had remodeled her home and the cats coloring did not match her new color scheme throughout the house!
My beloved Morty who has been with me since 1994, was surrendered after three months of enduring torcher by a one year old and three year old brats whose Mom purchased him as a toy for them to play with. I hope people like this someday will rot in the Hell they are perpetuating. Some people make me sick and ashamed to be part of the human race.
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Cropping is the removal of part or all of the pinnae or auricles, the external visible flap of the ear, of an animal. Most commonly performed on dogs, it is an ancient practice that was once done for perceived health, practical or cosmetic reasons. In modern times, it is banned in many nations, but where legal, it is usually performed for cosmetic reasons, usually related to show grooming. It is seen only in certain breeds of dog such as the Pit bull, Doberman Pinscher, Schnauzer, Great Dane and Boxer.
The veterinary procedure is known as cosmetic otoplasty. Current veterinary science provides no medical, physical, environmental or cosmetic advantage to the animal from the procedure,[1][2] leading to concerns over animal cruelty related to performing unnecessary surgery on the animals. In addition to the bans in place in countries around the world, it is described in some veterinary texts as "no longer considered ethical."[1]
Cropping of large portions of the pinnae of other animals is rare, although the clipping of identifying shapes in the pinnae of livestock, called earmarks, were common prior to the introduction of compulsory ear tags.[3] The practice of cropping for cosmetic purposes is rare in non-canines, although some selectively bred animals have naturally small ears which can be mistaken for cropping.
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Traditional cropping
Historically, cropping was performed on dogs that might need to fight, either while hunting animals that might fight back or while defending livestock herds from predators, or because they were used for pit-fighting sports such as dogfighting or bear-baiting.[5][6] The ears were an easy target for an opposing animal to grab or tear.[5]
Cropping the ears of livestock guardian dogs was, and may still be, traditional in some pastoral cultures. The ears of working flock-defense dogs such as the Caucasian Shepherd Dog (Kavkazskaïa Ovtcharka)[7] and the Pastore Maremmano-Abruzzese were traditionally cropped to reduce the possibility of wolves or aggressor dogs getting a hold on them.[8] According to one description, cropping was carried out when puppies were weaned, at about six weeks. It was performed by an older or expert shepherd, using the ordinary blade shears used for shearing, well sharpened. The ears were cut either to a point like those of a fox, of rounded like those of a bear. The removed auricles were given to the puppy to eat, in the belief that it would make him more "sour";[8] the ears were first grilled.[9] An alternative method was to remove the ears from newly-born puppies by twisting them off; however, this left almost no external ear on the dog.[8] Cropping was done to improve the dogs' chance of survival in combat with wolves and other predators; they wore heavy spiked iron collars for the same reason.[8] Three hundred years earlier, both ear-cropping and the use of spiked collars were described as a defense against wolves by Jean de la Fontaine in Fable 9 of Book X of the Fables, published in 1678.[10]
Dogs may have their ears cropped, legally or not, for participation in dogfights, themselves illegal in many jurisdictions
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