When hunting boar lost its appeal, the dogs were bred to be human companions.
Not exact matches
The Borgias, Season 3, Episode 5: The King of Naples meets his fate
when he goes
boar hunting with Micheletto.
I have had Cane Corso's for almost 10 yrs The first one I got had her ears cropped I admit I like the look but I will not put a dog through an Unnecessary surgery just to get a look I have had 3 dogs with ears intake for 6 yrs and I haven't had ear infections I clean my dogs ears on a regular basis Gook in ears are diet related Usually related to grain found in crappy dog food Like corn & wheat And yes cropped ears need to be cleaned too Also dogs with cropped ears hate the rain as it Gets in their ears easily I do believe in tail cropping if it's done before day 3 These dogs never stop wagging their tails & it really hurts
when they hit you There was a reason the Italians did tails & ears It was to protect the dogs from the wild
boar they were
hunting Today it purely «the Look»
The Boxer's history stretches back to the 16th and 17th centuries,
when its ancestors, descendants of a type of Tibetan fighting dog,
hunted stag and
boar throughout all of Europe.
The cropping of the ears of the Great Dane began during the years
when the dog was used to
hunt boar.