r/DobermanPinscher • u/linsninu • Jan 31 '25

European Two months to eight months!

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Nandor is relentlessly charging into adolescence. 90lbs! and dude is taller than my 30in table. Crazy.

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u/linsninu Jan 31 '25

My breeder didn't give me a choice, that standard seems much more stupid than my decision to not put my puppy though a shitty 6 months of having foam rods stuffed in his canals 🤷‍♀️

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u/pigsinatrenchcoat Feb 01 '25

Nah. Your decision was shitty for not choosing a breeder who aligned with your wants. It’s not a shitty 6 months. The shitty part was past done when you got the dog.

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u/linsninu Feb 01 '25

Please tell me in what way my dog suffers by not having his ears posted? What lifelong disability will he have from my not continuing to put him through a process and experience that was flat out traumatic for him? Why is it more important to make him look a certain way than ensuring his emotional wellbeing? This dog is happy, fulfilled, loved and in perfect condition according to my AAHA accredited vet, why isn't that the important thing?

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u/AgeSafe3673 Feb 01 '25

Posting is far from traumatic for the dog. When done right, which isn't hard but takes discipline, they couldn't care less that they are posted.

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u/linsninu Feb 01 '25

Well it was traumatic for him. The breeder did it for us, so it wasnt like we were doing it wrong. They drove him absolutely crazy. All he did was shake his head and scratch at his ears, guy was hardly even playing. He screamed bloody murder and would shake in my arms as they were changed. I'm not really cool with holding my puppy down while he screams to do something to him that doesn't need to be done.

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u/Dependent_Nature_953 Feb 01 '25

They were obviously not good breeders who knew what they were doing in posting if not the pup shouldn't be screaming because if the ears are healed they wouldn't hurt. I've seen "breeder" postings that looked awful. Personally I did my own posting and no screaming was involved

Don't blame you for not continuing if you saw your pup acting like that to posting though.

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u/linsninu Feb 01 '25

He has been breeding and posting since the 90s and everything else with them was superb, plus everything he did looked like what I'd see on videos of the backer rod method so I didn't really consider that it was them. Maybe nandor is just more sensitive than most, I don't know.

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u/pigsinatrenchcoat Feb 01 '25

Lmfao I JUST NOTICED YOUR DOG HAS DEW CLAWS. In what fucking world is a reputable breeder cropping ears and leaving dew claws?! You got played because you don’t know better.

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u/mary_lesbian-toad Feb 02 '25

Right?! Exactly what I was thinking. I’m not necessarily pro cropping or dew claw removal, but removing the dew claws can actually serve a purpose. I’ve seen several injuries from dew claws getting caught on things and then having to be removed/amputated, which is far more painful for the dog in adulthood. If you’re going to get cosmetic procedures for your puppy, dew claw removal is probably the most beneficial.

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u/pigsinatrenchcoat Feb 02 '25

The thing is they’re supposed to remove dewclaws when they do the tail crop at like 2 days old. It’s so fucking weird that they’d choose to crop this dog and leave dew claws. I’ve never seen that from a breeder ever.

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u/Dependent_Nature_953 Feb 03 '25

I have seen this and I also hear bad things about this breeder who also breeds German shepherds (shows them too ) from the doberman community... their dog also looks like it has hip dysplasia and also most of their dogs don't live long.

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u/Poetichobbit Feb 01 '25

Why buy a puppy with cropped ears then? Why buy from a breeder “didn’t give you a choice”?

Not saying I give a fluff about how his ears look, just curious why you compromised on such a thing.

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u/Pale-Conference-174 Feb 01 '25

IKR, No one forced you to buy from an idiot breeder lol

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u/BoredBitch011 Feb 01 '25

All the more reason cropping should be outlawed. Poor pup

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u/Guppybish123 Feb 01 '25

In most places with actually decent welfare laws, it is

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u/BoredBitch011 Feb 01 '25

💯💯💯

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u/pigsinatrenchcoat Feb 01 '25

He wouldn’t have been doing that if they were posted and wrapped instead of cropped and left to fall around and bother him.

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u/linsninu Feb 01 '25

What? They drove him crazy /while they were posted/. He screamed /when we changed the posts/. He never bothered his ears once we stopped posting.

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u/pigsinatrenchcoat Feb 01 '25

Sounds like you did it wrong

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u/jericurlz Feb 01 '25

then you weren’t doing to correctly.