what is up with ears?

lately i have seen a lot of pit bulls with big pointy ears..not cropped...like german shepard style..are these mutts?

 

i dont think so , cuz i have seen some butcher boys with ear's like that.

 

Nope, just 'cause a bulldog has crazy ears doesn't mean their mixed. Things like ears never mattered too much. A lot of people choose to drop erect ears, I think they give the dog personality.

 

There have been "bat eared" bulldogs throughout the history of the breed.

 

Here's one I just posted. Funny!!!

 

Oh my thats looks like what Raven did last night. She was playing with a toy and my husband sneezed. She looked up and both ears went straight in air. We about fell over laughing and she kept them up there for a good 30 minutes. I guess I should never have complained about them looking like flight wings because now I think she is going to have uppy ears. Its cute though and we love her no matter what.

 

now just my opion not a fact but i think that dogs with those kind of ears are to heavy inbred.and my reason for saying this is that almost every dog i have seen with those ears were very very inbred so thats why i say dogs that hve those ears are usualy really inbred.but like i said it is just my own experince not a fact or anything.

 

I love a bat eared dog.

I have always had good luck with bat eared dogs.

As far as them being inheavily inbred, I have seen it just as often with an outcross.

 

Here is one,



and here is her ped:

http://www.apbt.online-pedigrees.com/public/printPedigree.php?dog_id=80649

 

Damn that's a sweet ped there GAPITS

 

Those dogs need thier ears cropped. They look rediculous.

 

I have seen some Six Bits dogs with the ears like that.

 

You should of run a "guess the bloodline" thread on THAT dog, I knew it was a Greenwood dog from the first glance! LOL

 

She is to easy to guess for any of those familiar with the line, lol, they all look alike,

 

Is that your female chinasmom she does look kinda funny.

 

I think it gives them character. It's just cosmetic & the dogs don't seem to care.

 

actually, some states are trying to ban ear/tail croppings.....(dockings)

 

and when they do people will just start doing it themselves. people around here already do because the closest vet that will is 45 min away. Let me tell you have seen ALOT of ear mutilations because people are doing it themselves

 

it just seemed to me like a little bull terrier in the blood some wheres.

 

There's a few pics in Stratton's books of APBTs with pricked ears. I'm not going to dig through and find them, but I remember one was a pretty little red girl that was "inbred Bruno-Heinzl breeding." Ears like that don't bother me as much as Labradorky full-drop ears.