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Help finding illustrations on Great Dane ears

20 9:01:46

Question
Hey there.

I am trying to find a website and if anyone could help me out I would greatly appreciate it. The site had sketches & diagrams of various ear crop styles and was intended to be sort of a model for vets to follow in oder to achieve the ear crop that most suited the owners taste. I can NOT find this site now and it's driving me crazy.

And yes I do understand that people in the UK and such find ear cropping barbaric, cruel and unnessasary which is fine. To each his own. I'm not posting this to get into a debate over the ethics of cropping, I just need to find this website because the illustrations are needed as referance for a report I am doing for school.

Thanks in advance for whoever can help me out with this. And BTW- I've been a Dane owner for almost 10 years now..currently I have 3. 1 Fawn, 1 Merle and one Harlequin...all natural eared babies :)

Answer
It will have to be an American website as cropping is not allowed anywhere else in the civilised world.

We always say that if we wanted pricked ears we would have bred for them but in the states cosmetic surgery on show dogs is the accepted thing.  If you can't breed a good one alter a poor specimen surgically.

Ken