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Originally Posted by AlicetheYorkie  Alice is good (she's only needed regular ear cleaner for some wax and a little dirt, so no soreness to add to it) but my Beagle has ear problems ever once in a while and she's a bugger if I don't really put my foot down and get her in the right position. She knows the bottle and tries to book it away from me too  so I hide it behind my back with one hand and give her a "chewy" (CET or whatever) with the other to bait her. Then it's all about coordination lol. What I do with her won't work for a smaller dog - but what I did working as a tech with the tiny dogs was - kind of tuck their body in the crook of your elbow and hold the dog close to your chest. Use that same hand to hold the head steady (wrapped around the side of their face) while kind of pressing the chin into your chest and useing that thumb (I know, one hand/arm doing all of that lol) to hold the top of the ear back. Then you have the other hand to squirt the medicine in.
I wish I could post a video instead, it's so hard to explain lol. It's like restraint 101 hahaha. If you are still having a hard time, see if you can take her into your vet office once so a good tech can demonstrate for you.
Just remember too that once it's in there, hold the ear kind of up so in can get it all the way down into the ear canal, then gently massage the base of the ear to work it in.
My beagle's RX when she needs it has to stay in there for a minute or two before I can let her shake it out, so for that I just keep a good hold of her ear (keeping it up and kind of closed on my hand) and head and give her kisses on her head and muzzle while we wait out the time  |
That is exactly how I had to do many of my small rescues - and wild Tibbe when I first got him. He was wild as a hair, scared of all things in the house - well, life outside the crate period - and I would approach him with the ear meds and here was this feral little thing fighting for his very life looking at me as if you say, "You want to do what with that ear dropper?" But once I found his Achilles' heel - his dear love of performing tricks and conned him into thinking he's doing one - ha! - I had the little bugger. Tibbe would sell his soul to the devil to get to show off!!!