Ok, so I have a new puppy...
His ears are cropped, and this is my first time dealing with all this. They were cropped at 8 weeks. I'm trying to do this whole tape thing and I'm just worried I'm not doing it right...
When the tape is off (which it's only off when I'm changing the tapes), his ears are floppy. Occasionally the right one will stand, and today when I took them off the right one was standing, but seems to be trying to lean in. The left ear hasn't stood. When I took off the tapes from the breeder, she had a brace on, and both ears were leaning to the left by the time we got home from his long car ride. When I took them off to change them, both bases looked good, but the rest of the ear bent about halfway up. I have tryed to do a brace, but every time it just seems like the left ear than tends to want to lean outwards pulls the right ear with it and the whole thing is screwy. I think this might be what is now making the right ear lean in. Does that make sense at ALL??? lol. I just changed the tapes again (he got them wet), and I don't have the brace on right now...his ears are not straight up, but they stay like this pic (I know - not good pic...it's from my phone). Is this ok? Should I be doing something else? I am using the summit view way of posting.
Edited to add: I added two more pics - the 2nd one is when the bottom brace seemed to be working correctly, but that didn't last but about 1/2 a day. The 3rd pic is what I tried now - it doesn't seem to pull that right ear in as much, but I don't know if that is a correct way to go about this.
His ears are cropped, and this is my first time dealing with all this. They were cropped at 8 weeks. I'm trying to do this whole tape thing and I'm just worried I'm not doing it right...
When the tape is off (which it's only off when I'm changing the tapes), his ears are floppy. Occasionally the right one will stand, and today when I took them off the right one was standing, but seems to be trying to lean in. The left ear hasn't stood. When I took off the tapes from the breeder, she had a brace on, and both ears were leaning to the left by the time we got home from his long car ride. When I took them off to change them, both bases looked good, but the rest of the ear bent about halfway up. I have tryed to do a brace, but every time it just seems like the left ear than tends to want to lean outwards pulls the right ear with it and the whole thing is screwy. I think this might be what is now making the right ear lean in. Does that make sense at ALL??? lol. I just changed the tapes again (he got them wet), and I don't have the brace on right now...his ears are not straight up, but they stay like this pic (I know - not good pic...it's from my phone). Is this ok? Should I be doing something else? I am using the summit view way of posting.
Edited to add: I added two more pics - the 2nd one is when the bottom brace seemed to be working correctly, but that didn't last but about 1/2 a day. The 3rd pic is what I tried now - it doesn't seem to pull that right ear in as much, but I don't know if that is a correct way to go about this.
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