Originally Posted by
Lemond1985
You can thank the American Kennel Club for floppy ears, I think that's something that was selectively bred into dog breeds to make them "cuter", by way of drowning all the puppies in the litter that were born with stiff ears, and inbreeding the looser-eared ones endlessly, until they looked like freaks.
Actually that happens naturally in the domestication process even for food animals.