Who can resist a dog with pointy ears? In addition to the loveable traits that every dog possesses—sweet puppy eyes, boop-able noses or long skinny ones, and waggy tails—pointy-eared pups have ...

From floppy-eared bassets and beagles to pointy-eared French bulldogs and Ibizan hounds, dogs with big ears come in all ...

That’s what the airport environment is about.” He says they are not “retiring” dogs with pointy ears, but will “prefer” floppy-eared canines in the future. “A capable, trained canine ...

The Transportation Security Administration is in the process of swapping out pointy-ear dogs for floppy-ear ones in an effort to put more of the public at ease when interacting with its canines.

All have ears that are, of course, adorable — a 12 out of 10, if you will. But the T.S.A. has made it clear that it has a preference. The agency said it favors floppy-eared dogs over pointy ...

The agency's understanding of passenger views on detection dog ears is anecdotal and not based on survey data, Gregory said. But some research backs up the idea that people view pointy ears as ...