I concur. The likelihood of an infection is minimal. The only infections I have seen are with serious taping and posting of very long crops. IME, the taping and lack of care of the bandages were what caused the problem and led to the extent of it. This is why I prefer short crops. I feel that the crop itself is done humanely but most posting is pretty horrible. If you do a very short crop, you should have not troubles as long as you follow the Veterinary instructions about aftercare. Vas- Neonatal crops are hard to do correctly. At the time the ear canal is closed and the auricular cartilage and pinnae is not fully formed. If you cut it too far, you end up with a blunt cut across the pinnae. An inch in an older dogs ear pinnae can translate to millimeters in a neonate. It can be done, but it very difficult to do right. In LGDs this is not as noticeable because most have a heavy coat. If you look at other shorter coated LGD dogs you will see the cut I am referring to. There are many in the gallery here: