My groomer also told me that she thought Millie had ear mites. This came 3 or 4 days after I had just seen the Vet and he checked her ears, and found that there was waxy build up.
So I called the vet and told him what the groomer said. This was his response:
You cannot tell if a dog has earmites unless you look for them through a microscope. While dogs can get ear mites, it is not common for them or as common as in other animals like cats. He thought that the groomer may be looking at black flecks in the ear from the ear wax build up and told me to continue to give her the ear cleaning solution that I gotten from him when I saw him.
So in order to get a confirmed diagnosis of earmites you do need to get the dog to a vet so that he can do a microscopic study and then get a prescription to get the mites cleared up. |