4. Ear Cropping

Dog ears come In a variety of shapes and sizes much like the different breeze themselves however rather than cherish their dog for how they’ve naturally come into the world some owners believe it’s a good idea to engage in the practice of ear cropping to get a more desirable appearance this tends to happen a lot and brings like Great Danes pit bulls and Dobermans the problem is is that ear cropping and us to nothing more than forced mutilation so that the dogs can look prettier or fiercer the argument is often that floppy natural ears should be cropped because they are prone to infection but this is false in fact research has shown that ear shape has little effect on the risk of a dog getting an ear infection at least 80% of dogs never contracting your infection at all it’s not only this ear cropping create unnecessary physical pain and discomfort for most dogs but it can also leave them with lasting psychological trauma pups also use their ears to communicate and cropping parts of them can hinder an owners ability to understand what their dog is telling them as a big part of their body language is linked to their ears ear cropping has already been banned in Canada Australia and many European countries the US has fallen behind and we think it’s time to catch up.