Tape Falling Out

[Lightplum]

Here is the link for the ear template..

And more nicely done ears and they are nicely trimmed too to give you a better ideahttp://www.shelhaven.ca/hopefuls.htmland they are gorgeous puppies too

 

[tofu pup]

Yes you want to trim down the hair on the inside of the ear so the tape sticks to the leather. I have somewhere on here directions via missjenneygirl of the ear diagram. I'll try to find the thread and re-post it.

here is the famous ear diagram! It was a lifesaver last week when I was up in CT and did ears for a pet puppy of ours (missjenneygirl is my mom). I must confess that I needed the refresher-course!

Yes, yes, trim the hair along the inside of the ear. You want it pretty short.

Every breeder does ears differently, but I will brag and say that (IMO), whatever their other faults, all of our dogs have lovely ears!

(oh Lightplum, you beat me to the link!)

 

[Lightplum]

I tried to find the thread but gave up and just posted the link I have to say that also IMHO doing the ears this way they come out the best. and While others may not like my dogs in the ring they always comment that they just love their ears...they may hate the rest of the dog but they always have something good to say about the ears which I find kinda funny and I usually walk away chuckling!!!

 

[Sumac3890]

I would say that is the best tip is make sure the ears are dry before taping. I have worked and worked with Zak's ears and he has one that is breaking low and I am not sure how to correct it. I have a friend who shows for confirmation coming over Saturday to show me how to trim his ears.

He will be 10 months next weekend so is it to late to fix that droopy ear?

 

[tofu pup]

He will be 10 months next weekend so is it to late to fix that droopy ear?

Low-breaking ears tend to have soft leather, and are very hard to work with... but I'd say keep at it. There's no reason to stop now, and you still might be able to improve the situation.

 

[Sumac3890]

Thanks Tofu, would it help to massage it? Why would you have one correct ear and not the other--- where did I go wrong?

 

[tofu pup]

Massaging probably won't do anything (though I'm sure Zak would think it felt pretty good!). As an aside, I'm suspicious of claims that bat-in-the-air prick ears can be "fixed" through massage... unless you're physically breaking down the cartilage, it's not doing to happen (and you'd be hurting the dog).

The best you can do is keep setting them to break where you want them to break - don't go higher to try to compensate, just keep going back to the mean. It's possible that you set the the one a little low, and it took.

 

[vicky2]

That diagram helps a lot, thanks! But instead of using yarn, how would I use just a long piece of tape going across?

 

[tofu pup]

That diagram helps a lot, thanks! But instead of using yarn, how would I use just a long piece of tape going across?

I think the Silver Trails link on the previous page illustrates this pretty well... you could combine the two techniques by using missjenneygirl's longer "base square" (it's a square on Silver Trails, but a rectangle in our diagram) and folding in a tape brace across.

I will say, though, that the advantage of the yarn is that you can untie it and make adjustments. With a brace of tape going across, you've got what you've got (unless you break the whole thing down and start over).

 

[Lightplum]

Yes thats what I was going to say. The use of Yarn makes it much easier to do a quick fix i've had to do several of those and its much easier than having to take everything down and start again...