mooney1 120 Posted February 10, 2010 Report Share Posted February 10, 2010 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. 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! ) 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!!! well said pal Quote Link to post
mooney1 120 Posted February 10, 2010 Report Share Posted February 10, 2010 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. 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! ) 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!!! well said pal Quote Link to post
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