Ears and Tail - how to help

... very interesting topic ...

... If anyone has experience with sticking ears and tail ?

Sorry, but I do not understand the question.

Do you mean using glue or tape on a puppys ears so that they fall in the correct way and don't stand up?

I'm not sure what you mean about the tail though

... Yes Jo I mean that ...

...also I mean how to stick tail ... I have some experience whit stick tail ...

I have never seen this done before, does it work?

O, Yes .. but you mast be very persistent ...

...on photo my puppy has 5 weeks , and then I put him first stick, he wears that 2 weeks, then I remove that one day ... and then I put him again.

How long he will have stick, depends on puppy.

Very interesting . don't see it before!!!

I'm sorry, I don't see the reason for doing that to the tail?? I have seen tails vary a lot in how they are carried from the early weeks to several months later, without being tied up like that. Are you trying to make the tail stand up straight? I don't understand why that would work with a tail.

For me is much better that schnauzer have nice standt up tail, than a tail like s "pig" .

When schnauzer have tail like a "pig", for my taste he "lost" obviousness of back lines.

You understand what I mean?

I am sorry, what means ?

I do not know how to explain that you/ they understand me...

When you have schanuzer with a tail on the back like " pig tail " in the ring and look them , he look muck worse than schnauzer whit a stand up tail ... now we talk only about tail, not about other virtues or disabilities of dog.

If you have opportunity to "help" you dog with the tail or ears ... Why not ?
Many breeders do that ... look at the link

http://www.fildale.net/articles.php?article_id=18

... why not try whit the tail ?

I prefer to see how the schnauzer have his tail in reality because it's genetic
so... if the dog had his tail "like a pig" (as you said) and if you help him to have a better tail.. it's good in exhibition but if your dog products a litter we will see how genetical the tail is on the puppies

do you understand what I mean ?
for exemple I prefer to know how the tail of the stud dog is in reallity to be able to choose a female who has a real good tail (without any help) to hope having good tail on the puppies

I understand that you are trying to make the tail stand up straight instead of curled over the back.

I don't understand how or why putting a bandage around the tail in a splint would have any affect on a tail, when it is made up of lots of bones jointed together. Surely the only way to be sure of having an effect would be to injure the tail first and have more bone growth to fuse the joints together??


I understand that glueing or taping the ears on a puppy will set the correct folds into the ears so they fall correctly after the ear cartilage hardens at maturity but this is a very different thing to the tail. Can you explain the theory behind why it should work on the tail?

Sandrine you say it is genetic ... yes , but we also try to stick a ears, and may be we succeed in this, but also you don't know when you see a dog on photos if his ears are natural or are glued, and what the ears will have puppies od him. Am I right?

I tried to stick tail couple of time and it helped me. I see that in one very famous schnauzer kennel.
If someone wants to try or not to stick a tail, depends on him.
I said my experience, that many second breeders will not say - as they say these are the "little secrets".

I look at your photos but I see no result..???
When he was a puppy he had the tail on his back,but my experience is that the can go up when he is going older.
And in showring is the never the same as he is in the garden...
My female(Dyma) has a straight tail(correct) but when she is in the garden she pool her tail flat on the back.
Fenna has a correct tail in the show ring,but out of the ring she pull her tail a little bit next to her back.
So it is very different to know how the tail will be when he is an adult.