Ear Cropping dogs

I grew up around dogs with cosmetically clipped ears, (Doberman) what a pain !

I have also seen Pits & Dogos with clipped ears that live on chains in the dirt and the ears were constanly more dirty that dogs with cover on their ears.

I remember working a young Dogo in the pen when a rain shower, came up, it was just a slight drizzly rain and we took cover under the trees. The dog was left tied to a tree while we waited. The poor dog kept getting rain in his ears and shaking his head so violent, he could not pay attention to anything else

Dogs with Triangle ears are born that way, and they also have hair around edges to protect from wind and rain, (such as Sheperds and malamute) and can NATURALy fold them back to avoid rain and wind.

Cropped ears have very little protection from the elements and natural occurances, such as even just cold, so I guess if you are keeping the dog in climate controlled conditions its whole life, then that is not a big problem.

I have had several with bad ear bleeds, several with ears ripped off half way up, I think it could have always been worse.