Ear up? - Page 2

Or it may just be pain - if the mouth hurts, perhaps its too much effort to keep effort going into the muscles that erect the cartiledge ?  Dunno. 

Hope this helps.
http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/german_shepherd_dog/forum.read?mnr=147542&pagen=3#170769

Make sure the dog is not with another dog in a kennel.  

This has worked for me:
Buy tear mender. You can get it on Amazon for cheap. It is a flexible fabric glue. Take her ears in a tee-pee stance on top of her haed and glue the tips together. About a inch on each side so they have a good bond. The glue will set quickly as you hold the ears together. Do not get any on the inside of her ear. This will last about a week and she will look very odd and she will scratch at her ears. When the ears finally come apart, use adhesive remover also bought on Amazon and also very cheap. Take out the stuck on glue and let the ears alone for a couple of days so the hair can regrow a little. Then do it all over again. I would keep this up until they stand. Give her natural raw bone to eat.

It is still a little early to be worrying too much but you can at least get this started.
 

  LEAVE THE EARS ALONE...TILL MONTHS DOWN THE ROAD

I thought that after 6 months it was a done deal YR? This pup is 5.5 months old.

If you manage to get up ears on a GSD by spliting, taping, implants, odds are great the dog will produce more dogs with soft ears.

Agree with you Blitzen if they are meant to be soft they will be - and should not be bred on.  However, if she is just wanted as a pet there is not a lot of harm in trying the splints (not so sure about the glueing !) - but - YR -  that will certainly NOT work, IMO, if left too long;  the time to start is definitely now, according to people who have done it successfully.  I have never personally known a dog that did not get its  ears up past 8 months, - if they were going to go up at all;  like I said, any attempt to splint (post) I've seen done, didn't work;   although someone did tell me of a dog they knew which finally put them up at 10 months (after they'd tried splinting n given up as a bad job!) .  Looking at the photo again, hers seem awful heavy, they look to me like they might prefer to stay 'soft' - again, JMO. I have seen a few !  As for only buying puppies whose ears are okay, that suggestion does not go with picking out pups early ...