Floppy ears or pointy?

I don't know at what age it's too late, but when one of Asta's ears started to stand up a bit her breeder told me to just put some chewed up chewing gum on the tip to weigh it down. It stuck well to the hair and she didn't seem to mind it at all, and it worked. I have had 2 with natural tips, one with just the slightest tip (more like a curve, LOL) Brooke's ears were taped by her breeder and are on top of her head and tipped, and Faith has prick ears with wild ear hairs that just match her personality. :)
 
Sca and Spitfire are prong ears and Angus is a properly tipped. It had largely set when I got him so no credit goes to me. I like his look. However when the Orange Horror is clean with trimmed ear he has this black ring on the edge of his ears that is super cool looking. In the end I would probably go prong ear just for ease and knowing I will not show. But it is all good.

Oh and Sca had this dignified look going and his ears matched him perfectly in my biased opinion.
 
Sharon7 said:
...but when one of Asta's ears started to stand up a bit her breeder told me to just put some chewed up chewing gum on the tip to weigh it down. It stuck well to the hair and she didn't seem to mind it at all, and it worked.
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That's the technique I used too. Works really well, unless you have more than one Sheltie.

Poor little Tully, I'd come home from work and her little head would be sopping wet from where Deska had spent the day licking the chewing gum off her ears (hint here - don't use sugar free gum as it has xylitol). Needless to say, Tully has prick ears - I decided subjecting her to Deska every day wasn't worth it. Tully is just sooo beautiful though- I tell her maybe it is just as well she doesn't have floppy ears because her beauty would be just too much for the world to cope with and all the other dogs in the world wouldn't stand a chance.:wink2: I don't tell her really I wish she did have floppy ears.

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I prefer the look with tipped ears. My sheltie will be soon 1 year old and I still put patafix in her ears because now one ear is tipped and the other not so much. Her siblings have naturally tipped ears but her ears are very persistent. :gaah
 
Roberta said:
I've had 4 Shelties. Three of them had naturally tipped ears (I never glued them). Maxine, my newest, has one of each. I'm not an expert, but she is going to be a year old next month so I don't think this is going to change. I tell myself that this gives her character - although I do kind of wish they at least matched. I call them her goofy ears. I would love her no matter what her ears looked like.

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What a beautiful girl!!!
 
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