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More on ears taping ..
The following additional material on post-cropping care illustrates the most common ears taping technique. It was mailed to me by the breeder from whom I purchased Nifirtiti. But first, here is what I do and what I have always exactly done very successfully with my Danes:
1- First, ears taping after cropping is no big deal. With a little patience and attention, in a few weeks - likely very few weeks, your pup's ears will be erected
straight up in a graceful Dane fashion. Just keep them up every time you change the tape, never leave them down for a day unless there is an infection and you
need to apply antibiotic ointment and air them. If the ears have healed after the cropping and are dry and you can see there is no infection, the tape can be
up for 3 weeks or longer, just check by smelling and observation to make sure everything is OK.
2- My method of ears taping is similar to the attached material. Here it is in simple terms:
- clean & dry the ears.
- use latex skin glue sold specifically for this purpose and sports tape. You need to place support along the inside of the ear from the base level (level with
the head) up to to tip of the ear.
- You can glue a few layers of the tape to each other then use the glue to tape the tape itself to the inside of the ear, a starlight line up. Or, use a piece of
foam (sponge-like) rode and glue it to the inside of the ear. In either case, you hold the tip of the ear pulled straight up to ensure that the skin is flat
starlight up. Hold the ear around the inside support foam or tape you glued on the inside for a few minutes to allow the glue to take effect.
Note that you're using the specific pharmaceutical skin glue I mentioned.
- apply a generous amount of the glue to a foot long piece of tape and wrap it around the ear starting at the low base point. Very important that you use the
two ear folding that bend opposite to each other to maintain the shape of the ear base. In other words, when you are facing the pup, his left ear is on your
right, so let us deal with the pup's left ear that is on your right when you're facing the pup: the outside (far right) side of the ear will fold towards you, while the
left side of the same ear is closer to the other ear folds away from you towards the pup's back. (taping clockwise)
Now, the other ear,. the one on your left when you're facing the pup, which is the pup's right ear: the same thing, the far left side will fold forward towards you
(towards the pup's face) while the (inside) side closer to the other ear will fold backwards towards the pup's back (counter clockwise). See Anubis's ears
above.
You're basically maintaining and emphasizing a semi-cone shape, not a flat sheet shape. See the illustration to
the right: PRE = Pup's R. Ear & PLE = pup's left ear base line on the head.
- I use the glue and the tape and simply - starting at the base (bottom) I tape around the ear (while stretching it up
straight). It's that simple.
Now here is the illustrated material sent to me. As I said, I'll be producing a complete Dane reference material in video and
literature and will be made available for free to use as needed. click on the file below to view it:
