HELP
WITH TOPKNOTS, EAR TAPPING
How to do a Topknot?
1. Start with clean hair and brushed.
2. Part the hair on head, in a triangle, starting from the corner of the eyes to the top of the head. Different people do different things!
3. Take styling gel and put on the top knot, tease, now take a complexion brush or tooth brush and smooth top layer of hairs.
4. Take the hair in your hand and put the rubber band about a half inch to an inch away from head.
5. In the ponytail, make little palm tree, in the center of the palm tree take a small piece of hair out of the center. Pull it as sliding down rubber band. You should have a puff now. You can take a rat tail comb, and puff it out more with the sharp end.
6. Smooth out wild hairs with a tooth brush or complex- ion brush.
7. Now insert Bow.
8. Tease the pony tail and smooth the hair on the top layer. Fold over making a loop.
9. Hold loop and put a rubber band around it. 10. Next fan out loop.
11. There I think you are done. How does it look?
12. Remember Practice makes Perfect. This is not an easy thing to do. So Practice, Practice, Practice.
Tapping the Ears?
It's perfectly normal for
the ears to droop during teething. However, the thickness of the ears is in the
breeding and if they are too thick, they may not come up. The ears should be
trimmed on the edge about halfway down each side, then use a clipper (the Wahl
clipper is available in your local Payless or other drug store, the kind that is
used to trim the hair on the back of the neck) with a surgical blade, about
halfway down front and back of each ear. This is usually started at about four
weeks but if your puppy's ears are still not up, you must take off the hair,
massage them regularly, say once a day, to keep the circulation going and tape
them as shown.
A dental absorber is a good post...wrap some aerated Johnson & Johnson tape
backwards so the sticky side is out and insert on the base of the ear as support
and wrap more aerated tape as shown.
Then tape a bridge between the ears with 3/4" 3M filament tape to hold them up,
being careful they are in a natural position.
You can keep the ears taped for a week, but then even if they haven't come
loose, you must remove them and make sure the pups ears are dry and clean.
Whether they are up or not, leave them alone for a day or two. Retape them if
they fall again.
Smell the ear and if there is an odor, you may want to ask your veterinarian for
some Tresaderm. An odor could mean an ear infection and if the ear is odorous or
looks swollen, don't re-tape until you've corrected the situation or seen a Vet.
If you are taping the ears on a litter of pups, please do separate those pups before you do any taping. This is very important anyway as pups can "bully" each other and those little needle teeth can be very painful. Separating your pups at 7 weeks with a divider gives them a chance to develop their own personality plus it encourages them to start "bonding" with humans rather than become a "pack animal."
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