![]() You may end up with several trips to the vet to have un-cropped ears stitched back up. Big floppy ears will quickly become handles for another dog to bite, hang on to, drag around and hang off of. The Cane Corso is a high drive dog and these guys are very rough-and-tumble. If you have more than one Cane Corso, this will become an important factor in your consideration. Cropping the ear and removing the “handles” to grip and tear virtually eliminates the possibility that a part of the dog’s own body could be used against itself to impair and/or to immobilize it. If a working dog ends up being dragged down by his own ears, and/or blinded by its own blood from an ear wound, that dog is put at a serious disadvantage, its ability to perform may be compromised and the dog itself may be endangered. An un-cropped ear is easily wounded, and ear wounds will bleed heavily. With a working dog, cropped ears are more difficult for other animals to bite or people to grip. Cropping restores a functional, upright ear. It is not natural for dogs to have long floppy ears that hang over their ear canals closing them off to the air and light. In nature, there is no such thing as floppy ears that close off the ear canal like the man-made breeds of dogs we have created. We do not incorrectly refer to a dog with un-cropped ears as having 'natural' ears. Ear cropping, though a personal decision for many owners, is a truly fundamental aspect of Cane Corso tradition.
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