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Smelly ears.. Bella has stinky ears!! There is no discharge or anything coming out of her ears...just the smell. She had a bath last night and i might have gotten some water in them. Before every bath I use Epi-Otic just to clean them. Any suggestions?? Poor stinky girl:confused: I don't pull the hair in her ears becuase I'm not sure how much and I tried one time and it hurt her. The next visit to the groomers and I will have her do it. |
Does she scratch at her ears? Sometimes smelly ears could be the result of an infection. I would call your vet. |
She might have an infection brewing in there. Do you also clean her ears after her bath? Any water left in there can cause an infection:( |
Rebel had that problem and it was an infection. The vet gave me drops to put in both ears and it cleared up in a few days. It was kind of a sour smell. |
smelly ears can be ear mites too. |
I would take her to the vet. It is most likely and ear infection. |
What kind of drops did they give you?? and yes it is sort of sour smelling. I'm at work, but I'm going to take her in today. |
I think it probably is an ear infection like everyone else. |
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i think it's just an infection too...it always make me feel better when the Doc checks it out though. Then you can hit her with all the questions you've been saving up!!:D |
i would agree with e1 sounds like an infection to me too, also i always clean my 2's ears after the bath bnot before so that way i get any water that might have gotten in them... just a suggestion... hope all goes well at vets... |
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This is a little off subject (I'm sorry!), but how do you clean their ears? I'm a little afraid to poke anywhere in there because I'm afraid I'd hurt him. Also, he's everywhere after his bath, doing turns and rubbing on the carpet. So, it'd be even harder. |
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hi new member here.. My 5mo old baby Paddington has had the same problem for about a week or so now. I try really hard not to wet his ears when I bathe him but I guess I still got some in there. I have tried to clean his ears out too but he is REALLY bad about letting me do that. He nips me and the q-tip! From what I can tell there is no discharge coming out, he just scratches each ear for ~10 min upon waking up and then every once in awhile. He doesn't scratch all day or shake his head really but he did rub his right ear against a wall while we were walking yesterday and today. Otherwise he acts like a totally normal happy puppy. But from the looks of peoples comments here, funky smell is a pretty clear sign of infection so we're goin to the vet on Wed instead of to his first professional grooming. For future reference, is it ok to let groomers pluck ear hairs or does that lead to more infection? |
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Pluck My dogs have had earmites and my little boy has had them multiple times. We have the ointment stocked up. We now go to a groomer that plucks the hair out of their ears so well, that the vet even compliments us when we go in for visits! I really suggest plucking the hair out of the ears. Check with your vet, but I am pretty sure I remember mine telling me to get the ear hair plucked even when he had an infection as it would help it clearup faster. Also note that they make a special powder to help make it easier to pluck. Most groomers will do it when asked. I prefer the groomer to do mine. :) Goodluck! Let us know how you make out! :aimeeyork :) |
Yes Yes, the inside in the inner ear, not just the flap. Q Tips help and as long as you're not shoving it down too far into the dog's ear, they are probably faking that it hurts! :) |
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:yelrotflm faking that it hurts! heheheeh, i can see our yorkies doing that. |
but then again, hmmm....?!?! hopefully it doesn't. |
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I prefer the plucked ear, it's easier for me to see if there is any problem. Plus their ears seem to get stinky with all that hair in there, yuck! It's a matter of personal preference, I think. Someone else here may know more about that;) |
I was told not to put anything in a dog's ear, all I do is massage the inner ear witha cotton ball after a bath and thats it. Its been working for a year. |
Good news..Bella just has a little bacterial infection. No fungus and no mites!!:D Just drops a couple times a day. I'm glad I caught it early though. The first sign was smell though because she always scratches her ears from time to time. She is sleeping soundly now...she is not a fan of the vet since she hurt her leg and she had to be sedated for x rays:( (off the subject). I guess I will have to be more careful about water in her ears. I'm going to ask my groomer how she does it. I think the ear plug idea is good. I tried cotton, but she just shook it out. |
yay for Bella!! I hope I get similar good news for Paddy on Wednesday. He doesn't scratch *that* much either. But, better safe than sorry right?! |
Using q-tips Apparently there are conflicting opinions on using q-tips in dogs' ears! My furboy had a yeast infection as well as earmites when I brought him home. Unfortunately the examining vet didn't discover the mites and didn't even mention the fact I needed to keep the hair plucked out of his ears. Teddy began the head shaking the very day this vet checked his ears which makes me think the mites were there and he stirred them up! I was visiting in another state the next week or so and noticed Teddy shaking his head quite often and he had a funky smell about his ears...which was yeast. I took him to a vet and she showed me how to pluck his ear hair as well as clean them with a fairly long q-tip. She really got down in there deep! She gave me a drawing of a dogs ear showing how it curves..she said I should not be afraid to get in there with a q-tip as it would be impossible to reach the eardrum with it. She also said I should not need to do that very often if I keep the hair plucked, which by the way, a curved hemostat works really well to get the hair out. |
So you just pluck in the opening?? I'm confused as to how much to pluck. Not all the way up the ear, right? Did it hurt him at first??:confused: :confused: |
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I hope it is okay if I jump in here! I have a Cocker Spaniel and as you know they have the biggest floppy ears. Well my boy has never had any problems because I clean them out after every bath with a special "miracle" ear cleaner. Here is the link that will tell you how to make it! http://www.zimfamilycockers.com/EarCleaner.html I hope it helps and good luck! |
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