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Originally Posted by sunamand  Yes! Darwin does that too after a bath, like he's trying to dry his face and head off. But I always gently swab with a q-tip to check for wetness, and the inside of his ears are never wet...so I'm very confused. I think I over did it a bit today with the cleaning when I saw the brown waxy stuff, I used lik 20 qtips, and I hope I didn't clean too deep, I was just trying to get all the gunk out. I always feel like I have no idea what I'm doing and regret what I do to him after the fact...hope I didn't make things worse. |
I think most of us go through the "I hope I did that right" stuff.
Some vets will say it is okay to clean the ears with a q-tip and some say to NEVER EVER do that. Ellie's vet doesn't mind it but it needs to be done a certain way with the ear flap folded back. This way you can't go too deep. I would ask your vet to explain how they clean ears before doing it again.
If there was only a little bit of something on a q-tip with no smell, I really wouldn't be worried. Since you pulled out so much I would go to the vet. Even if it didn't smell bad, did it smell sweet? There is a possibility that it is yeast but usually you would smell something with that.