Opinions please on puppy - Page 2

You need a real leash!   Seems like you have a real big, gangly for now, but happy pup. Hope you don't mind if I embedded your video for you. You should get more of the type of responses you are looking for this way, as some of us are real lazy about not bothering to look, if it isn't a clickable link. 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShpYV56VAec

 Thanks very much!

 Thanks very much!

The ears should be up by 5 or 6 months. If they are not up by the time the dog is done teething they pretty much aren't going to go up by themselves.  And if you wait too long even taping won't help.
 
He's a big pup with heavy ear leather...I'd rather help them up than have a floppy eared GSD.

If he's still teething that's good, you can wait and see, but I'd start thinking about it if he were mine JMO.

What a cute pup. Large too. HE looks kinds like a plus coat , he seems so happy to be on a leash.
I have a long haired female who walks kinds of like that. I'm not sure what it is of it is even anything at all the way he walks.

Wonderful dog you have there.

T

You, yourself, realize that those bones are still growing and utilizing the calcium.  Those ligaments need time to catch up.  He needs surfaces that aren't slippery.  I can't help but notice the beautiful patio.  Natural stone.....limestone... travertine....marble????  Not really clear on my screen.  How slippery?  And, did you seal it...making it slipperia (sp?) (lol)?  I went with 'rough', large, granite tiles when we rebuilt our front porch last year....primarily because of the 'slippery' factor.  Also, I love that lush, green grass.  Lots of water to keep it that way???  Just wondering. My concern would be what he walks on......especially now.  

Only time will tell.  He's adorable.

I never taped any of my large boned dogs...never needed to..but my lines were different lines ,
No non working lines..so they all at 9 mos old were fine...

IT DOES TAKE LONGER....A LOT LONGER... I have raised many many dogs like that one but different lines..never ever have I taped an ear...

Raw meat, bones and   swim that puppy....Jane Stephenhagen yelled at me weekly   SWIM   SWIM  SWIM  'one of the best exercises for a pup with gangly problems
 GET HIM OFF OF CONCRETE AND HARD SURFACES..NO JUMPING OFF TABLES...SAND AND DIRT MOST OF TIME WHEN OUTSIDE.
watch for Pano also...kennel him if he starts limping and feed    in his Food   lots of bone ,  and geletin

Knox GELETIN   packets    use them in his food...along with any kind of food with calcium....NO SUPPLEMENTS OF CALCIUM

SUPPLEMENTS CAUSE FORMATION IN KIDNEYS AND Places that it doesn't need to be on a young dod...USE LOTS OF RAW BONES....


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If the ears were up and now they are down and he is still teething than they may go up. Please keep in mind that once you start taping th ears you will never know if they would go up on their own and then you should not breed him. If you do not want to breed him anyway I would tape at 6 mo the latest.
 I would also feed meat and gristle  and bone soup. I would try to slow his growth by less food. Make sure that he is always little hungry. I woulds not feed so called "high quality balanced diet!"
 Meat very lightly cooked, pasta, raw vegetable puree, sea salt, fish oil, 1 table spoon of live Greek yogurt or kefir. Swimming, sunshine, 25 mg of vitamin "C" , moderate exercise.

PragerHans
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Τhanks everyone for your kind comments. Interestingly I think it is the species of this grass that stays green because the garden is  Greece and as you may know it doesn't rain here that much!

Yes that surface is marble, however it is sandblasted and so is a rough surface. In any case he doesn't have any exposure to a slippery smooth surface and we take him on a variety of surfaces, dirt road, tarmac, grass etc all the time. He was much looser even a month ago and so has improved as he has strengthened.

Interestingly out of 6 pups, 4 of them still haven't had their ears up completely yet! But they are all large pups and late teeth erupters. We have seen them up however on a number of occasions.
There is no doubt about the pups lineage in that they are true blue GSD's taking it back very far. As such I would like to ask the people who have  had many years of experience with many litters, how many times they have seen puppies from unequivocally pure bred show lines, not get both ears up as an adult? Providing there is no disease or trauma to the ear of course. Also  I'm not talking about an erect but somewhat floppy soft tip, but full blown bilateral ear floppiness. I have heard conflicting reports, however on speaking to one breeder with 30 years of experience with pure bred GSD's  and umpteen litters, he says he has never seen one. Yes he has seen some pups take up to 7 and in one case 8 months for the ears to come up but never permanent bilateral floppiness. I personally have always heard the old adage, if you have seen them up at some point then they will definitely go up. Nonetheless I welcome any comments or thoughts.

Thanks again for  everyone's comments.