Why do Dobermans have their ears clipped?
The main purpose of ear clipping is to improve your Doberman’s hearing, as well as to reduce the amount of ear mites that breed in your Doberman’s ears and reduce ear canal disease.
Although rather cruel, for the Doberman, hearing is much higher with clipped ears than without (one said up to 8 times); as a guard dog, the tiniest sound is not allowed to be ignored; this is the basic reason why many countries are clipping the ears of the Doberman.
You should know that Doberman’s ears are very big, if not cut, long-term drooping causes poor ventilation of the ear canal, easy to breed ear mites; in serious cases, the ears will be too heavy to cause the ears to appear creases. Therefore, in addition to aesthetics, cutting the ears for the Doberman’s health as well as hearing have significant help. Especially as a working dog, the Doberman needs to have its ears clipped.
Also, the Miniature Doberman is a separate breed, not related to the Doberman in any way, and the Miniature Doberman is older than the Doberman, and will generally stand on its own ears, with only a few needing cropped ears to do so.
Finally, although the Doberman ear cropping surgery is a minor surgery, but for first-time Doberman owners, post-operative care as well as tying the ears is not an easy thing, a careless will be abandoned; so, if not as a working dog, but only as a pet, then it is recommended to choose not to crop the ears or to do enough preparation before cropping the ears. Doberman Pinscher as long as the head plate is thick enough, the body is compact and sturdy enough without cropping the ears is actually quite good-looking.