Nicola Adams and her model girlfriend Ella Baig have been blasted for owning an American bulldog with “mutilated” ears. The Olympic boxer posted pictures of her dog Brooklyn on Facebook in January 2019 that showed him as a 10-week-old puppy with floppy ears.
But Ms Baig’s Instagram account has a saved story that appears to show the couple welcoming a cropped-eared Brooklyn into their home, aged five months.
Fans of Adams have expressed outrage online and branded ear-cropping “barbaric” and “disgusting”. But a spokesman for the boxer said she bought the dog when she was living in the US and its ears had “already been cropped when it arrived from the breeder”.
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