Thank you everyone! Our breeder is in SC she does offer the cropping for an extra price but she has recommended if they take care of the cropping the puppy will have to stay there longer. Our friends got a pup from the same breeder and is also currently looking for a vet as well. All the breeders that we have looked at online are not offering the ear cropping. I am going to call Greenville and Asheville today I have also been told to ask for pics of their work. We visited academy vet hospital yesterday in Jacksonville but didn't feel like it was a good place no pics were available and I don't know just didn't seem like a clean place as well. We should be getting our pup on June 9th will post pics soon!
Hi, welcome to the forum.
At the risk of "piling on," I'm going to reiterate what others have already told you--namely, that a truly good breeder does NOT leave it up to puppy buyers to search out a cropping vet and handle all that themselves.
I am quite sure you found lots and lots of breeders "online" who just dump the whole cropping task and aftercare on the new buyers--because there are far more unethical, unknowledgeable breeders out there than there are good ones.
It is no one's intention to run ya off, truly it is not. It's just that most of us here either made the same mistake you're about to, in the past--or we work in rescue, and end up dealing with these same backyard bred Dobermans when they land in rescues, shelters, and dumped in the paper or on craigslist.
The problem is, Dobermans have so very many inherited diseases, many of them fatal, that no one needs to be breeding anymore, without doing tons of research, tons of health screenings (not just vet check-ups, actual diagnostic screenings), and really, really proving the animals they are using in their breeding program have the best possible chance of passing on healthy genetic make-up.
Please, I know it's hard, when you don't come from the same knowledge base, and haven't seen all this, to walk away from a cute puppy you have your heart set on...but it is the
ethical thing to do, if this is the type of breeder it sounds like.
If you reconsider, there are plenty of folks here who will be more than happy to help you wade thru the red flags, and help you find a breeder doing things right. It's a decision that will affect you and your friends and family for the next ten years, after all.