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03-05-2008, 07:22 PM | #1 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Parkland, FL
Posts: 742
| Ear Hair Removal?? Is this a necessary grooming technique? if so, how often will i need to do this?? what do i use to get it out? |
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03-05-2008, 07:24 PM | #2 |
Loved by Layla Donating Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Canada
Posts: 11,257
| if you go to the grooming section you will see a sticky that is a grooming video... i made them.. but there is one where i pluck Layla's ears. maybe that will help? |
03-06-2008, 06:28 AM | #3 |
And Rylee Finnegan Donating Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Metro Detroit, MI
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| Some vets say yes and some say no. I only did a few of Ellie's once for the heck of it. I say they can stay if they aren't causing problems.
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03-08-2008, 05:15 PM | #4 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Trinity, North Carolina
Posts: 1,149
| I read that as long as you pull a few hairs out of the ear canal at a time, the dog will not feel it at all because of the few or no nerve endings there. I used tweezers. A handful is not a good idea. They make a powder for pulling hairs out of the ear canal. I used to do it to Rusty all the time and he did not mind. I had a professional groomer groom him and she took big handfulls of hair out and he has never been to another groomer. Now, if I try to pull any, he gets mad and will not let me get them. He would rather bite me first! Hubby is right. Dogs never forget.
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03-08-2008, 07:17 PM | #5 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Seymour, Indiana
Posts: 1,384
| I do all 5 of ours and they don't even make a move, I just check them every time before their baths and do it before bath time, they don't mind a bit!! I just started doing it this year and Teddy is 3 & he was full of hairs, but plucking a few here and there didn't bother him at all. I used my fingers for the longer ones, the ones that was tougher to get to I used my tweezers. Now I keep a check on them!! Our Vet told us to do it. |
03-08-2008, 07:19 PM | #6 |
YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Pennsauken , NJ
Posts: 4,068
| i wander if my groomer does it?
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03-08-2008, 07:25 PM | #7 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Seymour, Indiana
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| It's not hard to do just pull a few out here and there, it won't hurt them unless U get a big bunch of them. Before Bonnie went to her adopted parent she went to see our vet for a checkup and she looked in her ears and said they have to come out I was like what??? She said hairs and just started pulling away, Bonnie was 7 months old then and never made a move!!! Shocked me how much a 8 month old puppy had that much hair in her ears. So she told me to do the other one and showed me how and now I do it myself! |
03-08-2008, 08:04 PM | #8 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Cape Cod Ma
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| Chewy is almost 2 and I never do it.... I had it done at pet smart once cause I was told by a friend Yorkies need it done. They did pull a big hunk of hair out... it bled, and he was in so much pain from it. I have never had it done since. If he needed it done because he had an infection I would try to do it myself.
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03-08-2008, 08:22 PM | #9 |
My hairy-legged girls Donating Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: lompoc, ca.
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| I pull the ear hairs out of the girls every few months. Zada who has the silky coat has more ear hair than Azrael with her thick cotton coat. Sometime dogs will get ear infections from moisture that collects on the hair and breeds bacteria. I use a tweezer like hair remover I bought from www.petedge.com/medical |
03-08-2008, 11:10 PM | #10 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Greenfield, TN
Posts: 743
| When I took Little Man to the vet Friday, the vet showed me how to remove his ear hair. When he pulled it out of Little Mans ear, Little Man yelped and whined and wiggled to get into my arms. I couldn't take it. I started crying, because they were hurting my baby. Whether or not they were hurting him, that's what was going thru my mind. The assistant had to help and I walked outside still crying. My MIL went back there with Little Man after I went outside. I knew then it was something that the groomer was going to be doing when it needs to be done. After we left, I gave him a treat, lots of hugs and lots of kisses. Then went to Wal-Mart after bringing him home and bought him 2 new shirts, a new chew toy.
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03-09-2008, 12:33 AM | #11 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Ft Worth TX
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| Oh no, I have been cutting ear hair, learn from YT members everyday. Thanks Now I will watch grooming video. All the horror grooming stories have me nervous to take Jazzi. At 6 months, he is hair challenged
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03-09-2008, 02:05 PM | #12 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Kentucky
Posts: 1,235
| the grooming powder loosens the hair and makes it easier to get the hairs out. I just got Cricketts done this weekend. She wasn't too happy with me, but we went a little at a time and used the powder and all went okay. Most groomers (good groomers) will take a little at a time using powder. I would never take a handful as this would most definately hurt them.
__________________ Jennifer, Proud mom to Micah, Candy, Nikki, Gizmo, and Crickett (gone but NEVER forgotten) |
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