Cropping

[cainenine]

Okay so Archie is at an age where I'm not going to crop his ears obviously but when he was I pup I had considered it but being that he was my little baby when looking around for someone reliable the only one highly reccomended in the area had retired so I am wondering for future reference if anyone can reccomend someone who can do a good pit bull crop. I live in Tacoma WA which is about 45-50 minutes south of Seattle, any suggestions would be appreciated.

If the opprotunity ever arrives in the future I would be willing to travel anywhere from Northern Oregon to Southern Canada and to Eastern WA.

Thanks!

[Tatonka]

A true bulldog crop in my opinion is a short crop. If you pulled the ear forward, you would trim the ear to the outside corner of the eye.
It is a very easy crop for any veterinarian to do, it requires no bell, just a straight line.
Many veterinarians don't want to trim ears anymore, too much trouble.

[cainenine]

I like that close crop as well but I have heard horror stories from people after getting thier dogs ears done by someone who was terribly compitent

[Tatonka]

Have a veterinarian trim your pups ears and everything will be good. The worst thing that will happen is they will trim them too long. They like to do that, use a marker on the ear for reference.
People like to tell horror stories. They always like their story to be the worst... I have never seen a dog permanently harmed by trimming its ears...well, the left over bits of the ears take it pretty hard, but the rest of the dog does fine!

[cainenine]

Have a veterinarian trim your pups ears and everything will be good. The worst thing that will happen is they will trim them too long. They like to do that, use a marker on the ear for reference.
People like to tell horror stories. They always like their story to be the worst... I have never seen a dog permanently harmed by trimming its ears...well, the left over bits of the ears take it pretty hard, but the rest of the dog does fine!

It is nice to hear someone more reassuring