My puppy - Page 1

My puppy is 5 months old, his right ear doesn't stand up, the dog trainer saw him and said its difficult for it to stand up, is  this true?

It's normal, but at 5 months I'd probably tape up the ear just to be sure.  Sometimes it only takes a short time to train the ear and it'll stay up after taping.  If you don't help it, it might not go up on it's own.

I know this sounds crazy, but my dog had one ear that took forever to come up -- I sang to him, and everytime I did he would tense his ears to listen to the strange sound I was making -- exercise for the ear!  The ear eventually came up and the dog is very thankful to have peace and quiet!

Don't worry, still teething.

To help his stress feed him an ice cube every two hours.

After his teeth come through his ear should be ok.

His chewing will help also his ear.

Cute Pup

He is young and still teething, that has something to do with it.
Also, though, feed him marrow bones, the more they exercise
the mouth muscles it will make for stronger ears, cause chewing
on the bones moves the muscles located near the ears also.

Plus any stress reliever helps pup to relax & grow, marrow bones make my dogs happy

Forget taping the ear,

try using fabric glue, you put a little on the outside part of the ear that is not up,
then press it to the ear that is standing for a minute or so, and the ear that is up
trains it, and hopefully it stays in that position, plus it washes off with water.
You can find it at Wal-Mart in the fabric section

Before

After

This is Theo's brother Lugar, he was the biggest boy in the litter, the lady that got him
told me about fabric glue, I had no clue

 Here's my boy at 5 months, and yes I was paranoid that the ear wouldn't stand.

So I did the fabric glue thing (not well).  I used Tear Mender.   He doesn't appear thrilled in this picture.

And here he is now,