I did a triangular cut-out and attached the masking tape to that instead of the inside skin of her ears. All I had to do was loosely tape them on and around the back of her ears. She never even scratched it and her ears got to breathe as I can see the space between the skin and the triangle (which I also wrapped with tape to fortify it and make it more peel friendly for reuse/retaping. I cut triangles out of reasonably sturdy business cards and/or waxed over cd/dvd case cover label/cards. For a while, I had also used a longer piece of tape to hold the 2 ears together (not pulled against each other but standing exactly vertically on head like they do now on their own) in a more upright position in case it weighed down off to the side so that each ear was able to provide support for the other. It worked great for me as I was concerned about rolling their ears into a cone and taping directly as I knew I wouldn't do it correctly.
Of course, the hairs on the back/front were kept trimmed. |