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Boxers, showing natural and cropped ears A Doberman Pinscher puppy with its ears taped to train them into the desired shape and carriage after cropping. Cropping is the removal of part or all of the external flaps of an animal's ear. The procedure sometimes involves bracing and taping the remainder of the ears to train them to point upright.
The ears were traditionally cropped and the tail docked, practices which are now illegal in many countries. The Dobermann is intelligent, alert and tenaciously loyal; it is kept as a guard dog or as a companion animal. [3] In Canada and the United States it is known as the Doberman Pinscher.
A Beauceron Beauceron with cropped ears. The Beauceron is known in France as a guard dog, a helper around the farm (herding sheep or cattle), and/or a ring sport dog (primarily protection training). This athletic, healthy and long-lived breed has been bred to be intelligent, calm, gentle, and fearless. [5]
Five-year-old Polo is missing the tips of her ears after they were cropped, a process in which dogs’ ears are altered or removed. Deaf dog with cropped ears learning sign language to help her ...
A U.S. Navy dog handler at the War Dog Memorial. The National War Dog Cemetery is a memorial to war dogs located at Naval Base Guam and is the first official war dog monument in the U.S.
Cropping is the removal of a person's ears as an act of physical punishment. [1] It was performed along with the pillorying or immobilisation in the stocks , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and sometimes alongside punishments such as branding or fines. [ 2 ]
The term cropping is more commonly used in reference to the cropping of ears, while docking more commonly—but not exclusively—refers to the tail; the term tailing is used, also. The term has its origins in the living flesh of the tail, commonly known as the dock , from which the animal's tail hairs grow.
The tail is long and the ears are small button ears carried high on the head. [8] Where it is legal, it is possibly docked and the ears cropped. [5] The head is 1 ⁄ 2 the length of the dog's back, when the back is measured from the withers to the base of the tail. [7] The cheeks are flat, but well muscled. [7] The coat is dense, wiry, and ...