How to clean dog ears
How to clean dog ears
How to identify your dog's ear infection?
Today you will learn how can you clean your dog's ear. You know that there is certain infection with dogs that are having a lot of ear infections. You can kind of tell an ear infection this doesn't seem to be too infected. To me, it just looks very very dirty so you can smell it if you smell the ear canal and it smells really funky. Then you know that there might be an ear infection and you can also visit our previous blog
You'll see a lot of yellowing and gooey yellow stuff coming out of the ear but this is just more it looks dirtier. So what we're going to actually shave the entire ear so this gonna be able to breathe a little bit better again with all this hair on these standard poodles. You'll get a lot of moisture just building up and caking up underneath. There so you should just gonna kind of get rid of all of this now.
How to start Cleaning your Dog's EarWe can get like a better view of what's going on in here so just take the comb and use a 10 blade on this kind of remove all of that see. So you could see better what's going on kind of your dog known as I'm pushing the back of the ear just to kind of make it more flush. Okay now, whenever you're doing here you want to be careful with that little flap of skin their little earlobe try not to catch that ear from the back.
Yeah so have to battle with it is just kind of clearing it all out so that you can see what's going on. So now we could see a little bit better with what's going on so now we could work on getting some of that gunky stuff in the ear canal. So do not use the ear powder and kind of just grabbing some stuff right into the ear. Now everybody has a different opinion on pulling the hair out of the ears if there is an infection. I would opt to you know not to pull so much hair out of the ear. Only because you know if you pull the hair out of the ear. What you are going to be doing here is putting ear powder just to grip the hair a little bit. But if you pull too much hair out of the ear and there's already an infection you may even contribute to the infection. But my take is you know pull some out but you know to leave some in some of that inner ear canal stuff. You can seal how cookie it is there want to try to get some of that out because it's just caked up in there so you really want to try to get some of it out without hurting him.
You know so I don't believe in you know doing the forceps thing where you're grabbing a big wad of hair and just yanking it out. I would prefer that people just do it the way I'm doing it little by little. You know this way you're not hurting the dog. So I'm just gonna tell on that a little bit more put a little more ear powder in you don't want to squirt the ear powder too deep, It's very very hard to get you kind of want to just keep it on the surface and just using your index finger and your thumb to kind of pull out small pieces you know.
Try not to grab a big wad of hair cuz it that tends to hurt them. You can see all this gook coming out you see that big black you see all that's what you want to get out this is what's gonna trap a lot of dirt a lot. This is what's going to cause an ear infection is that big all that waxy buildup in there. Once you get that out you know you kind of wants to leave some of the surface hair in there to act as a barrier.
That's why to try to not yank all of the hair out. But you are gonna do is go in with forceps try to warm forceps up a little bit. Make sure you spray them and keep them disinfected but almost tuck them under tuck them and just warm them a little get a little bit. They're not much and you just gonna open up that canal there and just grab that inner stuff that's right down in where there you go and again we're not we're not yanking it just kind of slowly pulling out and you really want to open up the canal and just kind of and you want to be careful not to grab the skin with the forceps that would just kind of grabbing little bits of hair and then come over here kind of scoop this alright so you ill get most of the hair out there again this surface stuff like to leave I feel that it creates a little bit of a barrier catches some stuff and again that's not the hair that's causing the infection it's that inner canal stuff that's causing it If you don't really smell any infection they just are very very dirty so once you've done that now you can go ahead and get your cotton ball it's okay puff up and we're going to start to clean that out wrapping up a cotton ball and putting it on your forceps like that getting you should use a pro ear cleaner kind of want to squeegee the squeegee it out a little bit shake it out so you're not dumping too much in and just kind of start up here don't go directly down into the to the ear canal yet because they will start to shake.
You should get all the surface stuff out first pull that away and then you're going to change your cotton ball and do it even a little bit more so you'll get all of the stuff that's in this crevice here we're just loosen it all up and then gonna change our cotton ball again you don't want it to be too big either you want to pull your cotton balls apart and just kind of fold them all over and make a nice little cushion for them so that you know you're not poking them and then with the ear cleaner.
You just kind of putting a little bit on and now you go a little deeper in the ear canal so You're going to open this ear canal a little bit and just kind of try not to push things to push anything down into the ear canal. So scooping out you know to scoop this all that gook out of the ear so you kind of place and pull outward and don't go too deep you should really kind of measure because that you can feel the ear canal from the back of the head don't ever think that you should be going down in here you're not going deep you don't want to puncture their eardrum or anything like that you just kind of want to grab what you can and pull it forward and out.
So once you've done all of that now we will get them in the tub and try to wash out this ear flap and wash it up the best you can but is he we've loosened everything up you can see how much better the ear canal already looks no infection just very dirty but again to avoid infection we want to do that and clean that out and again see these little hairs right here.
I like to leave those because it does they do capture any dirt and debris dogs running around and stuff like that it'll keep a lot of dirt out so try going to go ahead and get them in the tub and clean this up a little bit more and have them share some of that stuff out and then go over it again and I will show you how much cleaner it is.
So that's it we cleaned it out best we could in the tub got all that excess dirt off the ear flap you know went back in and cleaned out any excess in this in his little ear crevices there so and if you leave any kind of a little bit of hair in there but you'll get most of the hair that was in the canal there so you could see how much safe it is the ears gonna breathe a lot better now all that hairs off of it so your dog is going to feel a lot better with all that hair out of it so yeah guys you should be checking your dog's ears.
I would say at least once a week if you have a breed like this a standard poodle or Bijan or a wheat and Terrier a dog that requires hair that the pulling of the hair then you really want to check them more often and you know depending on the breed the bent depending on the individual dog's your pet's lifestyle if you have a dog that swims a lot if you have a dog that is out in the field or working on a farm you really want to check those dogs even a little bit more often because they can get they're prone to ear infections and getting a lot of dirt in their ear but I definitely want to stay on top of this you want to avoid any ear infections but again if there is an ear infection,
It depends on how severe it is you might want to you know call it that like I said sometimes if there is a severe infection depending on how bad the infection is if you go and pluck that hair out it may contribute to the infection and cause an even bigger problem so you definitely want to you know really find out how bad it is and again it varies groomers like myself we see this a lot so we tend to see whether or not you know they're infected and or how infected they are again sometimes I'll come across something that might be very very infected and I'll have the client go to the vet and clear up the infection first before I start doing any pulling of the hair or anything.This is how to clean dog ears fully explained with solution.
