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Originally Posted by anastacea  Hi!
Thank you for your reply. Her name is Nibbler. I am getting a Wisdom Panel done to know if she is mixed or not. Sure, I can start trimming her ear fur. How do I go about that? Just grasp the hair and trim it with scissors? At what age should her ears be standing up? Thank you for the tip.
Anastasia |
I use a pair of small blunt tip scissors, but many people will just get a cheap beard trimmer and do the ears. You can trim the top and bottom face of the ears with the trimmer but need to use scissors to do the edges. The trimmer can nick the edges. To trim with a beard trimmer, just hold the ear out, put a couple of fingers on the side you're not trimming so the ear stays flat and trim off the hair. Do this to both sides. With ears that are not standing, go all the way to the base of the ear. There is a contour on the rear of the ear that can get snagged so be careful in that area. Find it before you start trimming. It will look like a little flap a little up from the base.
You'll need to repeat this every week or two until the ears firm up and stand. Some may need to be taped or braced in some other way if trimming alone doesn't do it. At this age, though, just go with trimming for now. The standard 'maintenance trim' for a Yorkie is to trim the hair on the top third of the ear, but that is for later.....after you've got them up.
Some ears stand very early and some later.....some won't stand no matter what. Nibbler's ears look like they will stand with some work on your part. Don't be discouraged if you get them up and they re-flop. That can be due to teething. For certain, though, they won't stand if you don't keep the hair off them.