[dobebug]

Tip injuries are fairly common. One of the things you can do if the ears are still being posted is to tape the ear with the injured tip up almost to the tip and use a band aid over the tip of the ear (to protect it) that way you can inspect the tip as often as you need to and simply replace the tip, medicate or whatever until the tip fully heals.

When I had an older dog with a tip injury it turned out the the cartilage at the tip had been damaged and there wasn't enough uninjured skin at the tip for it to heal normally. We ended up doing a little minor surgery--under anesthesia the vet removed the cartilage at the very tip, debrided the skin so there was clean tissue and put in two tiny sutures and I posted that ear--without taping all the way to the end and used a band aid per above. When the tip healed we removed the sutures and that ear was maybe 1/4 or 3/8 of an inch shorter than the other ear but really wasn't noticeable.

Hopefully you won't have to do that.

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[dobebug]

"that ear was maybe 1/4 or 3/8 of an inch shorter than the other ear but really wasn't noticeable. "

I can tell you weren't married to a machinist! LOL I never hear the end of it if something is 1/4 or 3/8" off!

Yeah, Mary--carpenters and machinists are like that--my ex was a machinist when he was going to college and he didn't just measure things twice he measured them three or four times and was forever finding fault with the not absolutely perfect crops on several of my dogs.. <VBG>

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