Greyhound Ears

Ears are a funny thing with greyhounds- as puppies they seem to have a life of their own. As they get older they settle down into the more typical rose position. Echo has a lovely ear set but they still seem to their own agenda. Perhaps indicating the wind position?


Or direction she is going?


Or mood?




Apparently her siblings also have her talkative ears-Becca listening?



The Van Gogh one eared looked as modeled by Merlin and his sister Jesse

Puppy Ears - You gotta love 'em!

When I first got into greyhounds I started with a little 8 wk red greyhound puppy named Z. She had the most perfect face and ears that I had ever seen. One day I noticed one of her ears were looking strange, they were flopped over her head. The next day it was normal. The next day it did another strange behavior. They then started going all over her head in unusual positions. Not knowing what was going on I started gluing them in position like the collie/sheltie people do. A fellow resident I was working with asked me what I was using all the glue for. When I told her she started laughing and asked me if I really didn’t know that puppies did that when they teethed. Well they didn’t teach us that but she was right. I stopped gluing and when she finished teething her ears were perfect!!

Lyric's puppies have been teething for some time now. Here are some photos of the different crazy ear positions we have managed to capture.

"The Cap"

"Fox Terrier"

"The Flip"

"The Flop"



"The Rabbit" or in this case "The Half Rabbit"

"Windblown"



"Picasso"



"The Half Prick"
This is the way the ears are supposed to look when a greyhound is alert.








This is "Z"