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05-30-2013, 10:29 AM | #1 |
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| How to cut droopy ears? Hi everyone..I am looking for ideas from any of you who have yorkies who don't hold their ears up as far as cutting the hair on their ears. Wallee has a very curly combination/ cottony coat and although it is quite the struggle to keep it up, I have let his coat grow a little. My biggest problem is trying to make him "look" like a yorkie. Because he is a Biewer to start with and with the droopy ears everyone always asks me if he is a s**tzu. I am thinking that if I saw a few pics of other pups who have their ears drooping I might get ideas for the next time the groomer comes here to cut his hair. Uggh..I just spent 2 hours bathing and brushing him out and getting out the mats. Teehee, he still looks a little scruffy but here is his pic after this ordeal. |
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05-30-2013, 02:25 PM | #2 |
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| oops I meant to ask how to cut the hair on droopy ears. I am looking for ideas from anyone who has a yorkie with droopy ears. (Dang DH for picking the only one in the litter with ears down). |
05-30-2013, 02:29 PM | #3 |
YT Young Pup | I have seen people putting tape on their ears. I havnt done that, but someone has.
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05-30-2013, 02:32 PM | #4 |
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| The thread title scared me! I was thinking you meant cut droopy ears to make them stand. My DD is getting a Great Dane and they "crop" their ears to make them stand, where they actually cut out a "v" shape of their ear flesh. I'm hoping she choses not to do this... You mean shave/trim the ear hair to lessen weight & make them stand? I trim the top half of ZoE's ears, just for looks & appearance. Her ears went up naturally at around 8-9 weeks. How old is your pup? I've heard there is only a certain timeframe where the ear cartilage is still susceptible to being trained to stand up.
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05-30-2013, 02:36 PM | #5 |
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| Haha. I think I scared off a lot of ppl with the title. No I would never crop ears, in fact Biewers don't even have cropped tails. I know taping is not an option and we decided not to tape even when we got him last year as we don't mind that they are not up. I am just wondering about the haircut as ppl never se him as a yorkie. |
05-30-2013, 02:41 PM | #6 |
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| Your Wallee is adorable, he just has lazy ears Rufus doesn't have droopy ears but I was googleing and found a couple of pictures of biewers with droopy ears. I find that if the hair is kept short, you can see the shape of the ear and it gives them more of a yorkie look. This are the links: -http://ottawadogblog.ca/odb-files/2010/10/Murphy05.jpg -http://www.heartlandbiewers.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/woodrow2.jpg -http://nordrhein-westfalen-dortmund.annoncen.org/export/tiere-20091102180212.jpg -http://quality-puppies.webs.com/annie%20001.jpg
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05-30-2013, 02:46 PM | #7 | |
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05-30-2013, 02:58 PM | #8 |
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| I love the way Wallee looks! He's gorgeous. I can understand your frustration but you may have been blessed to be an educator to those not familiar with all the variations of Yorkies! LOL Love your pup!!
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05-30-2013, 03:06 PM | #9 |
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| Thanks Diane. He really does have a unique look. Teehee. Seems I have been educating about the whole Biewer history forever. Lol |
05-30-2013, 03:43 PM | #10 |
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| I think that I would cut the hair on a droopy ear Yorkie (or Biewer) the same as I would one with erect ears. Shave down (inside and outside) about 1/3 of the way and trim the rest to the shape of the ear.
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05-30-2013, 04:56 PM | #11 |
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| I share your pain! Nilla is the same way -- cotton coat and all! When she came to me, her ears fell (I guess from the stress of a new home). I tried to tape them once, it was horrifying for me, so I said if it didn't work that time that she would just have floppy ears. So she has floppy ears. She looks, I think, super cute anyway, but I have the same problem with everyone and their grandma thinking she's a Shih-Tzu. No one wants to hear the Biewer explanation either -- I sometimes wish I had business cards with a Biewer description on them. xDDD ... but anyway. My groomers (I've tried three) have never shaved her ears down. They just trim around them, leaving them a uniform length. I don't think that they shave 1/3 of the way down though ... She has always had a fair amount of hair on her head and neck -- I did recently ask for it to be trimmed a little shorter in these areas due to a nasty tick season. I attached a picture of her with her Christmas toys. xD New computer -- it's one of the only ones that I have transferred from my cell.
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05-30-2013, 05:26 PM | #12 | |
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05-30-2013, 10:16 PM | #13 |
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| Biewers Thank you! I kinda like her, lol! ^^ Wallee's a cutie too -- love the name!
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05-31-2013, 03:16 AM | #14 | |
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05-31-2013, 06:43 AM | #15 | |
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I was thinking how Woodrow from Heartland has his ears. They are basically yorkie cut without his ear standing. I think that might help. The Shih Tzu thing. Galen's ears were always up and people ask is he Shorkie I still give them the Biewer speech. I too thought about a business card with the information to hand them lol at least I don't feel as nutty now
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