Link to my OP :https://www.dobermantalk.com/ear-cropping-posting/309375-post-ear-cropping-other-help.html
It will be a long post. So please bear with me.
I almost messed up my pup's cropping. I was planning to take off his stitches on the 10th day. My resilient puppy took out of his bandages on 10th day. An e collar did not stop him. He was continuously hitting his left ear through the e collar. I took him to my my regular vet. But he said that his wounds hadn't healed and he will not remove his stitches till 15th day. He just took off the bandages and did not re tape them. His right ear which did not bear the brunt of his kicking was erect for days till 13th day. And the left ear which he kicked was was semi-erect. My puppy woke up even after the doctor sedated him. During his cropping surgery, he took 25 minutes to go to sleep after been given anesthesia. Both doctors said they hadn't seen such a puppy who fought off sedatives and anesthesia. He wanted his stitched ears to be exposed to air,He prescribed many antibiotics, anti itching pills with sedative effects. But that did not stop my dog doing his usual kicking. My regular vet asked me to increase his dose. But it felt like it had no effect on him. I couldn't sleep for 2 days due to his sounds of crying and kicking.
On the 13th day, I had enough. I took him who the surgeon who did his cropping and lives in another city to remove his stitches. Two minutes after he was administered anesthesia, he took a massive ****. Then he fought off the anesthesia for 30 minutes. After he went to sleep, the surgeon put him on surgery and tried to clean his ears by rubbing alcohol, he woke up. The surgeon was stunned and complimented me for having such a headstrong puppy. And he had to to give him mild sedative to put him to sleep again. Then finally he removed his stitches and taped his ears above his head. And told me to take off his bandages after 8 days and let his ears rest for a day. And then re tape his ears in the same manner. I did not understand and asked him why did I have to re tape if wounds healed after 8 days. He told me the taping he did was his posting method. I asked him about the backer rod method and clamp method ( suggested by my regular vet). He said he had experienced with lot of posting methods in his 20 years experience of cropping ears. This was the easiest and gave quick results. This was the reason why people from far off cities came to him for cropping. After I exited his clinic. I met a son and his father taking out their two dobermans for a walk. I asked them did they do their cropping and posting from the same vet. They said yes and told me they lived in the same area. The black doberman was about a year old and the younger brown one was 4.5 months old. He told me he cropped ears of his younger one when he was 3 months old. He used the same taping/posting method described by the doctor. He got his ears permanently erect in 7 weeks. I was shocked. The older one's ears took two months. The son advised me to use paper tape instead of surgical tape to cause less pain to the puppy. Researching online, I never come through such an easy method which gave quick results that with a long crop.
I will post video link of the procedure but bear in mind that I could record only when he taping posting his second ear and the language isn't English. But anyone can pretty much understand what he did. Here is the video link:
https://youtu.be/qh7EZu3n1a8
While researching more I came through videos of an Eastern European doberman breeder, he had some modified tool with wires to post ears. The posting looked very with that tool.
Here is that video link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNCRMnXSPNU
Then after a bit of googling, I came to know that tool is known as 'JR ear crop harness tool'. I searched online but couldn't find a seller who shipped this tool.
If anyone knows how to make this tool by yourself, please let me know.
I am totally confused. And one thing I know that backer rod method would be very hard for me. My puppy is mad at me because I had to apply force to apply anti infection cream on his ears. He does not even let me touch his ears and even runs away when I look at his ears. He has become very aggressive. Has already tested my blood more than 5 times. So I don't if I would be able to apply the backer rod method to post his ears.
Please post your views.
Thanks.
dobebug, Melbrod and other experienced guys whom I don't know:2smile:
It will be a long post. So please bear with me.
I almost messed up my pup's cropping. I was planning to take off his stitches on the 10th day. My resilient puppy took out of his bandages on 10th day. An e collar did not stop him. He was continuously hitting his left ear through the e collar. I took him to my my regular vet. But he said that his wounds hadn't healed and he will not remove his stitches till 15th day. He just took off the bandages and did not re tape them. His right ear which did not bear the brunt of his kicking was erect for days till 13th day. And the left ear which he kicked was was semi-erect. My puppy woke up even after the doctor sedated him. During his cropping surgery, he took 25 minutes to go to sleep after been given anesthesia. Both doctors said they hadn't seen such a puppy who fought off sedatives and anesthesia. He wanted his stitched ears to be exposed to air,He prescribed many antibiotics, anti itching pills with sedative effects. But that did not stop my dog doing his usual kicking. My regular vet asked me to increase his dose. But it felt like it had no effect on him. I couldn't sleep for 2 days due to his sounds of crying and kicking.
On the 13th day, I had enough. I took him who the surgeon who did his cropping and lives in another city to remove his stitches. Two minutes after he was administered anesthesia, he took a massive ****. Then he fought off the anesthesia for 30 minutes. After he went to sleep, the surgeon put him on surgery and tried to clean his ears by rubbing alcohol, he woke up. The surgeon was stunned and complimented me for having such a headstrong puppy. And he had to to give him mild sedative to put him to sleep again. Then finally he removed his stitches and taped his ears above his head. And told me to take off his bandages after 8 days and let his ears rest for a day. And then re tape his ears in the same manner. I did not understand and asked him why did I have to re tape if wounds healed after 8 days. He told me the taping he did was his posting method. I asked him about the backer rod method and clamp method ( suggested by my regular vet). He said he had experienced with lot of posting methods in his 20 years experience of cropping ears. This was the easiest and gave quick results. This was the reason why people from far off cities came to him for cropping. After I exited his clinic. I met a son and his father taking out their two dobermans for a walk. I asked them did they do their cropping and posting from the same vet. They said yes and told me they lived in the same area. The black doberman was about a year old and the younger brown one was 4.5 months old. He told me he cropped ears of his younger one when he was 3 months old. He used the same taping/posting method described by the doctor. He got his ears permanently erect in 7 weeks. I was shocked. The older one's ears took two months. The son advised me to use paper tape instead of surgical tape to cause less pain to the puppy. Researching online, I never come through such an easy method which gave quick results that with a long crop.
I will post video link of the procedure but bear in mind that I could record only when he taping posting his second ear and the language isn't English. But anyone can pretty much understand what he did. Here is the video link:
https://youtu.be/qh7EZu3n1a8
While researching more I came through videos of an Eastern European doberman breeder, he had some modified tool with wires to post ears. The posting looked very with that tool.
Here is that video link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNCRMnXSPNU
Then after a bit of googling, I came to know that tool is known as 'JR ear crop harness tool'. I searched online but couldn't find a seller who shipped this tool.
If anyone knows how to make this tool by yourself, please let me know.
I am totally confused. And one thing I know that backer rod method would be very hard for me. My puppy is mad at me because I had to apply force to apply anti infection cream on his ears. He does not even let me touch his ears and even runs away when I look at his ears. He has become very aggressive. Has already tested my blood more than 5 times. So I don't if I would be able to apply the backer rod method to post his ears.
Please post your views.
Thanks.
dobebug, Melbrod and other experienced guys whom I don't know:2smile: