Awww, just adorable. The two of them so alike!

The resemblance is striking! They look like they were caught being mischievous. AWdorable.

How cute is that, what is it about asymmetrical ears. And I swear that puppy is growing daily.

So adorable! Made me smile!

Cute, cute CUTE!!

Safe on a big comfy pillow, what more could any dog want?

They look so much alike, just different size versions, and both are so cute.

"one ear that seems to be staying tipped and one that is going prick"

These two expressions are completely new to me, never before seen or heard. I can see one ear up and one ear down but it would be a guess which description refers to which.

Elmer- when I was a kid my aunt bred Shetland sheepdogs and I remember her telling me to use a little glue on the tip of a puppies ear and glue it down to train the ears to tip over otherwise they might go prick and stay straight up.

I know prick is an actual term used by dog breeders to refer to an ear that is erect but tipped is, I think just a phrase I use due to my aunt telling me that.

I never have glued a dog's ears, it seems cruel to me just to make them look a certain way but that is where the terms are coming from for me.

If a person or animal "pricks up his/her ears," the ears go UP because of listening intently. Tipped means tipped over.

When we had our Sheltie, we put some sort of sticky clay or something on his ear tips to keep them tipped over until they stayed. Maybe they would have tipped over anyway.

When I got my Great Dane pup in the late 70's, trimming the ears was the norm (frowned on now days). The vet cut the ears to shape and wrapped them around a tampon, then bandaged them. Poor Alexis. Her bandages had to be changed often and the ears looked so sore and yucky. Forget how long they needed bound. They never did look real neat afterwards, suture scars showed in some areas.

She lived to be over 11yrs. old, that's a good age for a large dog like a Great Dane.

"Stay tipped" and "go prick" are what I was referring to. I've hear of "perking up ears" and it seems like that's a similar sense but "go perk" would be similarly unclear to me. I suspect the specific word usage is regional.

Growing up in Wash. state and Oregon, we always used the term "pricking up" one's ears. I don't think it's regional.

You've heard it, I haven't, that's fine. It's neither good nor bad, neither right or wrong, but I don't consider the area you cite as being part of the region I live in. You can see it differently, that's okay with me too. It could be a function of my experiences, your experiences, neither or both. It doesn't matter.

Yeah, TG, "y'all" is in the dictionary too but it's also never heard in my area. The meaning is more obvious but there are dozens and hundreds of words of regional or occupational or socio-economic popularity that are known in one place or among one group but not in others.

I'm not sure why the overreaction but my question was intended to be a question because I didn't understand either phrase. It wasn't a provocation.

You might not have meant to Elmer, but by referring to it as a possible regional and/or socio-economically specific popular phrase, you implied that those of us who do know the phrase are, for lack of a better term, hickish rednecks.

Let me be the first to inform you, if you didn't already know, that people from this region generally embrace the "redneck" title; however, if it TRULY doesn't fit, they get annoyed.

You refer to it as a regional slang term when; I KNOW you are just as smart and as capable as I am that if you run across an unfamiliar phrase, the first thing you do is google it. A simple google search would lead you to any number of reliable and "NOT" regionally specific sites that would quickly inform you in under 30 seconds that prick is a somewhat common and acceptable term to use to refer to an animals ears being erect.

It isn't "regional" and it isn't "socio-economically based" either. You implied both which was possibly frustrating to others, I know it was to me.

Sorry, my intent was as I said, not at all what you've described. My area and sub groups in it also have their own word usage. It is what it is and how it is to me. Maybe I'm wrong. You're welcome to disagree.

Should I have cited the East Coast "youse" instead of y'all? Same idea. No judgment involved.

I'm not a "do a search and assume it's right" type. I'd much rather ask a human when I have a question.

Maybe you haven't heard it because you don't run in "dog circles" elmer? I have to say I haven't heard it, but I don't think it's regional. I'm a very cat person. I love dogs, but I wouldn't know the first thing about owning one.

Precious! Love it :)

You say tomato, I say tomahto. The pups are still awdorable.

She is just precious and I can't believe how much she resembles your other dog. As for the doggie tech talk on the ears, I just assumed that since I'm not involved in any sort of breeder / showing dog activities that I wasn't familiar with the terms. I appreciated the explanation.