Hi!
Im new to this forum. I was joined to another but didn't really get help their so im hoping i could get some help here, any advice and just to kind of rant my thought out.
Basically my dogs ears are a shit show.
He was a gift to me from my brother. Other than his ears he is a lovely sweet dog with a great temperament (one of the best ive seen) and in great health. He is my first dobe and my first cropped dog.
SO this may be a tad long but our posting horror show has a bit of backstory dont know if it will help giving me guidance.
I got him at 4 months. His crop isn't bad but its not good either. One ear is longer than the other and has a wider bell. His ears were flipped on his head completely bent over into his head when i got him . I didn't know a thing about posting so his ears were left like this for maybe 2-3 weeks. Finally i started looking up tutorials and ended up not taping correctly (too tight as the post kept falling out so i thought tighter was better) causing him huge sores on his ears which i was told to leave down. This took about 4 weeks to heal. Fast forward he is around 6 months. I meet with a couple who teach me the backer rod method with bumpers. Very nice people with a great looking red with a show crop. (mind you cropping is illegal in my city and including myself i think their are maybe 5-6 dobermans who are cropped and not all of them are online)
Well it worked for maybe a week but he keeps ending up bending the backer rod (even though i wrapped it with duct tape multiple times) Also turns out i had the bumper in the completely wrong spot. (i think i still have no idea where a pocket forms)
This was about a month of me trying to post him with the backer rod. Fast forward now to 7 months a kind lady messages me after my multiple facebook posts as im almost in tears how stressful this has become. She teaches me the zip tie method over Skype. The ears stay straight up while in their posts but the i take them down they almost immediately bend over again. They aren't as bad as they were but the left one is still so bent. Mind you i dont give them any unnecessary down time and its only around 5 minutes between postings that they are down. His right ear just got an infection so ive had to leave that one down and it was straight for a few days but has started leaning all the way in again. He is now over 8 months old and i was told his crop is relatively short and should have been done by now. My brother (my guardian as im 17 and the "owner" of my dog" has said he doesn't want them posted after 12 months as its unfair to him to keep doing it.
Is their any hope left in his ears? Im debating just taping them down so they flop because ive tried and listened to everyones advice but i keep doing something wrong and i dont know what.
At the end of the day they are just ears and i wont love him any less but it has been my dream since i was little to have one of those "dobermanns" with the nice upright ears and im just crushed and so lost on what do now.
Im new to this forum. I was joined to another but didn't really get help their so im hoping i could get some help here, any advice and just to kind of rant my thought out.
Basically my dogs ears are a shit show.
He was a gift to me from my brother. Other than his ears he is a lovely sweet dog with a great temperament (one of the best ive seen) and in great health. He is my first dobe and my first cropped dog.
SO this may be a tad long but our posting horror show has a bit of backstory dont know if it will help giving me guidance.
I got him at 4 months. His crop isn't bad but its not good either. One ear is longer than the other and has a wider bell. His ears were flipped on his head completely bent over into his head when i got him . I didn't know a thing about posting so his ears were left like this for maybe 2-3 weeks. Finally i started looking up tutorials and ended up not taping correctly (too tight as the post kept falling out so i thought tighter was better) causing him huge sores on his ears which i was told to leave down. This took about 4 weeks to heal. Fast forward he is around 6 months. I meet with a couple who teach me the backer rod method with bumpers. Very nice people with a great looking red with a show crop. (mind you cropping is illegal in my city and including myself i think their are maybe 5-6 dobermans who are cropped and not all of them are online)
Well it worked for maybe a week but he keeps ending up bending the backer rod (even though i wrapped it with duct tape multiple times) Also turns out i had the bumper in the completely wrong spot. (i think i still have no idea where a pocket forms)
This was about a month of me trying to post him with the backer rod. Fast forward now to 7 months a kind lady messages me after my multiple facebook posts as im almost in tears how stressful this has become. She teaches me the zip tie method over Skype. The ears stay straight up while in their posts but the i take them down they almost immediately bend over again. They aren't as bad as they were but the left one is still so bent. Mind you i dont give them any unnecessary down time and its only around 5 minutes between postings that they are down. His right ear just got an infection so ive had to leave that one down and it was straight for a few days but has started leaning all the way in again. He is now over 8 months old and i was told his crop is relatively short and should have been done by now. My brother (my guardian as im 17 and the "owner" of my dog" has said he doesn't want them posted after 12 months as its unfair to him to keep doing it.
Is their any hope left in his ears? Im debating just taping them down so they flop because ive tried and listened to everyones advice but i keep doing something wrong and i dont know what.
At the end of the day they are just ears and i wont love him any less but it has been my dream since i was little to have one of those "dobermanns" with the nice upright ears and im just crushed and so lost on what do now.
