5 months old ears - Page 3

live4schutzhund - while this is a very good article, its for a dog with very soft ears. the puppy in the above pic, just has a crease. i prefer to do the minimum necessary.
a small tringlular wedge is all that's needed.

1" x 1.75" the widest part of the wedge should be placed to the ouside edge of the ear and and the point to the center. 2 to 4 weeks is all that's needed.

Her is the girl 3 weeks later just gave her plenty bully sticks and knuckle bones.She did go to the vets,no ear infections but she did have round worms.She weighed in @ 64.8 lbs 6 months old. These pics were taken a couple days ago.Today both ears standing perfect took a couple of pictures then camera died.

Hoorah, they stood up !  They'll  probably stay that way now.
She looks very pretty.

they're looking much better, but the right ear has a crease. it may stay, if it doens't bother you.......take your chances.
if it bothers you support it for a few weeks and it will go away.


note the crease in the left ear...........
this dog's ears are very stiff, but the crease developed during teething......it wil never go away.
its not considered a flaw, but its there.

Just be patient, humans lack patience.
What I am seeing is a puppy that is growing, and if the ears were already up at one time than that tells you 
when all the adult teeth are in ears should be standing.

In the meantime feed marrow bones, and lots of them, the chewing motion increases the muscle strength around
the ears and also gives them calcium at the same time, works really well for my pups.

Lots of luck, keep us posted!
       Paula

Oops!
Just read your most recent post!

Good for her!!!!  Looking good!!!!!

Hurray.  She is a cutie. 

Here is my girl now and her ears are looking good. Her coat is nice and thick she does have the hair tuff behind the ears.But nothing between the toes.Now what kind of coat do you think she is sporting?

In UK we would see this as semi-long, equivalent to our
interpretation of the german 'langstockhaar',  BUT it is
borderline, I have seen dogs in English showrings with
this much coat, or almost, and it is just regarded as
having slightly excess 'feathering'.  The American show
folks probably see it as 'plush' ?

Some of what  you end up describing it as (Standard,
OR (semi) long) will actually depend on its structure and
the extent of the undercoat, plus the texture - the degree
of harshness;   and you possibly won't know that
until she has had a further moult and has her full and
final adult coat.

She is a little young still yet, have patience !  LOL

Either way, Kharma is a very attractive GSD.  The coat looks
very healthy.


Edited to add:  Steve I don't see anything in her (good W.
German) pedigree to indicate soft ears, that I know of,
so it is unsurprising that they have come up.  Longer
coats are 'luck of the draw'.  She looks as though you
are getting the feeding right, which is another question
you raised.