Yes, dogs with floppy ears hear just as well as dogs with pointy ears. In fact, some of the breeds that demonstrate exceptional hearing, like the Great Pyrenees, have fold-over ears.

A woman was talking about “Black Dog Syndrome” — a theory that black dogs are less likely to be adopted than those with lighter ... that one floppy ear, a Poodle’s ears blossoming with fur.

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Humans have a part in why domestic dogs have different ears than their wild relatives Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously ...

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But the ears of many dogs are distinctly floppy. Darwin saw this odd trait in many domesticated species — "cats in China, horses in parts of Russia, sheep in Italy and elsewhere, ...