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There were and in some parts of the world still are two reasons for ear cropping one reason was if a Dog was used for Fighting without cropped ears they would be ripped badly in a fight. I can vouch for the other which was to prevent them ripping thier Ears whilst Hunting.I had two imported Cane corso's who were Boar Hunting in Sicily both had Docked Tails and Cropped Ears. It wasn't done for looks as they were Farm Dogs over there.

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Not all fighting dogs have cropped ears fella, i'd say it's probably 50/50, some like that "mean" look of a cropped dog, others prefer to keep that natural ear which DOES protect the more important inner workings.

like i say cropping a dogs ear does nothing to aide him in it's intended role, but each to his own...

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It was a practice carried out mainly in fighting bull blooded dogs many years ago then in some breeds abroad some years ago was accepted as a stantard like tail docking etc for looks purely i have no ideas why people would want to do it to bullx dogs though other than to think it may stop there ears getting torn when taking larger quarry its bloody pointless though a dogs ear is designed to flap over to give protection from muck debris elements affecting the inner ear

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I'm not interested in getting My Dogs ears cropped but I would like to be able to still get thier tales Docked 3 weeks ago My Dogs were running through the woods and one came back with a Broken Tail. So now I have to wait for it to heal before He can run again,6-8 weeks!

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I'm not interested in getting My Dogs ears cropped but I would like to be able to still get thier tales Docked 3 weeks ago My Dogs were running through the woods and one came back with a Broken Tail. So now I have to wait for it to heal before He can run again,6-8 weeks!

 

Never seen a lurcher with a docked tail.... :laugh:

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Ear cropping was practiced in the dog fighting world for two reasons, firstly ears can be an easy and painful hold and second, ear bites bleed like feck. It was said that pouring ears would weaken, by bloodloss, the strength in the dog.

These days ear cropping is done for asthetic purpose and is a barbaric ritual for any canine to go through, utterly pointless. :censored:

 

As for working lurchers (or terriers), ripped and bleeding ears are a fecking pain, especaly when your beloved mutt decides to shake the drips over you, or worse still, your car!

Ear rips (or bites) can be stopped quite easily (Foxdropper put a post up yesterday about it, sound advice! :thumbs: ) and I would rather a dog comes home with a drippy ear or two that be constantly shaking its head from the million bits of crap that would fall down the gaping casom that cropped ears would bring whilst in the field, most of which would cause very nasy infection. ;)

Edited to add, I don't think that dog in question has had it's ears cropped and I've never seen a bull x that has, nor would I want to!!!

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Not all fighting dogs have cropped ears fella, i'd say it's probably 50/50, some like that "mean" look of a cropped dog, others prefer to keep that natural ear which DOES protect the more important inner workings.

like i say cropping a dogs ear does nothing to aide him in it's intended role, but each to his own...

Yokel

 

 

Not even 50% fella most of the great dogmen all over the world never crop ears.

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