[alaskayorkie]

Ugh, as I was combing Jillie out before bathing last night, I noticed some crusted blood on the tip of her right ear. I cleaned it up and discovered it's a tear across the tip of her ear. It looks like a clean scissor cut, but it's been 3 weeks since she's been to the groomer and no one has had a scissors anywhere near her since.

I brought her to vet and she says the tear goes all the way across her ear and the tissue above it is already dying. She said I had 2 options: Surgically remove it or just let it fall off. She said, as disgusting as it sounds, letting it fall off is actually how they treat frostbitten ears.

Since she's also due for a dental, I've decided to do both at the same time. They offered to do it tonight, but I wasn't comfortable allowing them to put her under anesthesia without her fasting so I scheduled it for Thursday.

I'm completely baffled as to how it happened. Vet agreed it looked like a scissor cut, but she says she's not sure. It's possible it got caught on something and tore along a blood vessel.

Why I saw no blood until it had crusted over is beyond me. And if it happened at the groomer 3 weeks ago, you'd think she would have acted traumatized when I picked her up. That wasn't the case. In fact, she's shown no pain at all.

Here are some pictures that show both sides of the ear. From the outside, it looks like only a small tear, but inside the cut goes all the way across.