Ears

[Sophie B]

I noticed while posting Smudge's tribute that his ears pointed up and Smokey and Bacon's ears are both pointed down, does anybody else have a piggy like this? I'm not very observant so if it is normal I probably just didn't notice...

 

[HeatherRose]

My new skinny pig has straight up ears and all of my furries have floppy ears

 

[Sophie B]

Aww!

 

[DMS260820]

My new skinny pig has straight up ears and all of my furries have floppy earsView attachment 98269View attachment 98270

the pointy ears look good

 

[Sophie B]

Anybody else with pointy eared piggies?

 

[DMS260820]

Not me, all big flappy ears lol

 

[DMS260820]

Skinny pigs are £200 in the uk
Guess thats good though

 

[Sophie B]

Wow! I've never seen a skinny here before..

 

[DMS260820]

Sophie blane, you would like dumbo eared rats. They look cool

 

[DMS260820]

Wow! I've never seen a skinny here before..

My local petshop has a few

 

[YvonneBlue]

My skinny pig Dora.has one ear up and one down.

 

[Wiebke]

I noticed while posting Smudge's tribute that his ears pointed up and Smokey and Bacon's ears are both pointed down, does anybody else have a piggy like this? I'm not very observant so if it is normal I probably just didn't notice...

Up or down ears depend on their size and weight. Babies have upstanding butterfly ears but as they age the growing ears will start to flop once gravity is taking over. Piggies with really large ears have the floppiest ears.

I love the very short stage most when some babies are just on the verge of flopping and have one upright and one floppy ear.

 

[HeatherRose]

My skinny pig Dora.has one ear up and one down.

Now that is just adorable!

 

[Eriathwen]

I think Panda and Pumpkin are the only ones of mine that ever had sticky up ears, the rest of my lot are pretty big and floppy although they've mostly flopped over now these guys are older!

 

[Merab]

We’ve had piggy bums, we’ve had cute lips and noses.
Is it time for a piggy ears thread?

 

[Sophie B]

I think it is!

 

[Merab]

Thread started in Photos and Videos

 

[Claire5012]

This might sound silly but I thought all piggies had floppy ears. I've never heard of sticking up ears! I have to say though..... They're so cute!

 

[Sophie B]

Not silly at all! I thought some piggies had “up” ears and some had “down” ears

 

[Sophie B]

As Wiebke was saying (most?) babies have up ears, and Smudge was a baby, so maybe he just didn’t live to the stage his ears would flop at, I think he was a runt because he was always smaller (still bossier!) than Smokey and Smokey’s ears were always up.

Don’t even know if that made any sense!