One ear up, one ear down

[glencorgi]

Originally Posted by jprechel

How do we know if his cartlidge is "broken"?

At Ace's age, it is pretty unlikely the cartilage is broken - unless he has had an injury to the ear, just kind of doubt it. Ace has a lot of bone and substance and his ears go along with that. Guessing, they appear to have fairly heavy leather and the heavier the ears the more time it can take for them to come up (keeping us on pins and needles while they do ). Then there is always the this one was up yesterday and now its down game back and forth.

You've got him on a good diet, vitamins with calcium as a part of the formulation; you can add the vitamin C, cottage cheese and yogurt if you want. You've got the instructions to tape, he's a chewer - so that can help exercise the muscles. One more thing I've thought of is, you can massage the muscles around the base of the ear, another little trick to help strengthen those muscles and which help hold the ears up. Oh and a few spells from the Hogwart's School of Wizardry never hurt. <LOL>

Debbie

[jprechel]

Debbie,

Thanks for the encouraging words of wisdom. I guess that we are already doing what good parents should so we'll keep it up! Ace is really enjoying the cheese and ear massages. It is sooo easy to spoil our furry children! As for the spells, we have a call in to Harry!

[jprechel]

We decided to tape Ace's ears up on Monday. I orginially taped both of them like the article mentioned earlier, but the duct tape seemed too heavy and both ears were flopping back and forth as Ace moved his head. We got worried that we might mess up his one good ear, so we just taped the one that was down. We took the tape off this morning and we have a success! We are cautiously optimistic that it will hold. Thanks for all the advice and encouragement.

Jim and Bethany