Scratching ears and yelping?

[Hooks_Yorkie]

I took Hooks and Simone to the vet and it was ear mites She had given him some so I got him treated too.

[Moses]

Thanks for the update! yea, I would treat them both at the same time.

[au8370]

I was searching different threads and found this one which is the exact same experience my little one is going through. My little guy is yelping while he scratches his ear. I have looked into his ear and it is fairly clean, there is no redness. He only scratches a handful of times a day then shakes his head. Just went to the vet to get him his Parvo shot and he checked his ear as I told him about the scratching, but he advised that there was nothing that he could see (or smell). He did advise to pull his ear hair out though. I have switched up his food 2 times, but he still scratches. Is there anything else I could be missing?

After my explanation above my real questions is in regards to removing his ear hair. I was at the local store today and something caught my eye. It was a nose hair remover! I was wondering if this would be safe to use on my little guy to remove the hair from aggravating his inner ear. Would it be safe to use? Has anyone ever tried this before? I am asking since when I try to remove my little guys ear hair he basically screams in pain and tries to get out of my grip with all his might and I don't want to restrain him too hard. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!

[Hooks_Yorkie]

Originally Posted by au8370

I was searching different threads and found this one which is the exact same experience my little one is going through. My little guy is yelping while he scratches his ear. I have looked into his ear and it is fairly clean, there is no redness. He only scratches a handful of times a day then shakes his head. Just went to the vet to get him his Parvo shot and he checked his ear as I told him about the scratching, but he advised that there was nothing that he could see (or smell). He did advise to pull his ear hair out though. I have switched up his food 2 times, but he still scratches. Is there anything else I could be missing?

After my explanation above my real questions is in regards to removing his ear hair. I was at the local store today and something caught my eye. It was a nose hair remover! I was wondering if this would be safe to use on my little guy to remove the hair from aggravating his inner ear. Would it be safe to use? Has anyone ever tried this before? I am asking since when I try to remove my little guys ear hair he basically screams in pain and tries to get out of my grip with all his might and I don't want to restrain him too hard. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!

How old is your little guy? When I first time I took Simone to the vet the day I bought her the vet said the same thing to me. Her ears were really small and they just clipped a little of the ear hair with scissors and said that was probably what she needed. She grew a few weeks and that is when I was able to smell her nasty ears and see the irritation.

I just used scissors very carefully to cute the access hair....I am a slightly weary of the nose hair trimmer because I imagine that it would pluck it out but again I don't know anything about nose hair trimmers

My baby had the infection and ear mites for about 7 weeks, that is how long it took her little ears to grow out. She was 8 weeks when I got her.

Hope that helps. As someone told me on her the yelping is definitely not normal and all of it stopped with Simone immediately after she got treatment so I don't think it is the hair either since she still has hairy ears