The NO TAPE Ear Taping Method!

No more crimps, crinkles, tape, bridges or racks! Use this No Tape Ear Method and see wonderful results! And puppies can stay together and play without hurting the ear healing process.

The following is a testimonial by Leslie Hall as printed in the DPCA Pipeline.

All but the two that are staying are gone - from a flood of nine puppies down to a trickle - from a thundering herd, to a pitter patter. It's been twelve weeks since their birth, and six weeks since they were cropped. Their ears have been posted for the last five weeks - no crimps - no crinkles and when you talk silly to them they wrinkle their brows - ears straight up, without a speck of tape - a bridge - or a rack.

They've been together - all nine at the beginning, without a stay coming down due to the other pups. When they bump into something (usually another brother, (there were eight males, one bitch -whew!) their ears bend, then spring right back.

We used this method five days after the litter was cropped. The ears were cared for while they were up, resulting in no crimps or curled from scar tissue on cut edges. Of course, you must be extremely careful while putting them up, but the cropped edge was easily accessible.

If the puppies are newly cropped, it's easier to do this with two people, but it can be done with one. Two people can do a litter of nine in less than an hour and a half - including preparation!

SOUND INCREDIBLE? It is - This is the miracle medthod, the "recipe" follows:

INGREDIENTS:

HERE'S the HOW-TO's:

Clean all the ears well with peroxide for newly cut ears, alcohol for healed ears.
Take as many squares of MOLEFOAM needed - two pups per square, and prepare as follows:

Do all of one step before proceeding to next (i.e. cut six squares in half, then do next step on each stay). It goes faster.

LEAVE PLASTIC BACKING ON MOLEFOAM UNTIL ALL CUTTING IS DONE.

Using the ruler, measure halfway - vertically from backing edge to backing edge (see illustration). NOW, take the ruler and draw a line DIAGONALLY from corner to corner - leaving a half inch at top. CUT following lines. (see figure A)

CUT off bottom in a slight arc, this removes the "points", rounding the portion to go in the bell.

Peel off plastic backing on all stays to be used. There is adhesive on the foam, but it is not sticky enough to stay put.

Place an ample amount of glue on the white sticky side, starting from about 3/4 of an inch up from the bottom, GLUE ALL stays to be used and set aside.

NOW, place an ample amount of glue, being sure to completely cover the ear - evenly - starting from the little knob just above the canal (see Figure D). Wait a minute or so NOT the four or five minutes as instructed on the glue, being careful not to let pup shake head, or you'll glue the ear to the side of the head.

NOW, roll the base of the stay.

Being careful not to let the stay stick to the ear before you have positioned it well into the canal (as far down as you would place any other method of posting). Holding ear in the position you want it to stand, attach the stay - from the bottom up - straightening edges on healing ears. Rub stay to ear to make sure it's well adhered.

VOILA! C'EST CA! FINIS!

DON'T worry about taking stay out, they fall out by themselves in about ten days, from the oil on the pups ear. They seem to be virtually "puppyproof", as the others chew on them, etc, but they don't come out prematurely. Ther's no problem AT ALL with infection or glop inside the ear canal, because air can get in freely. There's no danger of taping too tight, or cuts and gouges from tape at the base.

IT is an incredibly safe, easy, PAINLESS method. I did not think it up (wish I Did!), it was handed to me third person - no one seems to know where the idea came from, but it is super.

~ Leslie Hall

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