dog with swollen ear- PICs pg2

[CityGirlintheCountry]

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That's the problem. It's just me here. I have a hard time getting her cornered and still and having both hands to manipulate her ear and the medicine bottle.

Warming it up makes a lot of sense. I do bring treats to the job, but I run out of hands pretty early in the game. I totally understand why she hates it. If her ears are already irritated the last thing she'd want is for me to be messing with it. Poor puppy!

 

[breezy]

Then start out by changing how she reacts having her ears handled. Touch her ear then treat her. Keep at it till she tolerates having her ears handled then gradually add handling the inside of her ears. This is a training issue. She didnt get this way overnight and it will take time breaking her reactive behaviour and replacing it with controlled behaviour. Let the vet handle any flushing and medicating when you take her in so that they can be the bad guys. Once you have her under control for having her ears handled for yourself then you can go to the vets office and have the techs handle her ears while you feed her. Guess what Im trying to say is that changing the behaviour is a process and will take small steps working towards a goal to get to where you need her to be so that you will be able to avoid trouble in the future by having the ability to maintain her ears. We have to retrain dogs for this all the time in the shop . It takes time but can be done

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

I handle her ears all the time. They are really soft, so I love to rub them.

She is totally fine with that. She'll lay calmly while I rub inside, outside and all over. The rubbing/ scrubbing action the vet showed me doesn't bother her either. Apparently that motion feels good because she'll lean into it. It's the liquid in the ear part that makes her unhappy. Just bringing out the bottle makes her leave the room. Again, I understand that completely. The feeling of liquid in your ears is different and it can be disconcerting. She did okay with the vet doing the ear wash also. Granted, I was there holding on to Lucy and the vet was doing the ears. It's that second person thing again. I just need a third arm...

We are out of the ear medicine, so I'll haul her back into the vet tomorrow to get that and to have the vet look at this hematoma. (She'll even let me mess with that. It's just stuff in her ears that she hates.) Hopefully we can get this under control again.

Thanks for your help!

 

[chicknmania]

Our dog has that type of ear too and she has been to the vet over the past eleven years, on an average I'd say once or twice a year for haematomes or just pre-haematoma type things. We are supposed to clean her ears regularly, which we do about every ten days, but even so, she has frequent problems. The vet says she has the worst ear problem he has ever seen. But you do need to watch for and treat it. It is painful and can make them sick, if the thing bursts they can develop a cauliflower ear, too. It is a real pain, both to her and us.

 

[CoopCrazy]

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I havent read the whole thing but if it is just a hemetoma you can clean the are really well with alcohol and make a small incision to allow the blood out , claen with betadine a wrap snug with gauze and vetwrap.. I used to take my mastiff in to have hers lanced and she would just sit there and let them do it.. then i started doing it myself.. save a very costly vet bill.... I never had any problems with infection... This is just my opinion I am not a vet but did work as a vet tech for many years and have assisted with literally thousands of these and done atleast a dozen at home.. Good Luck

 

[QuailHollow]

The hematoma will not burst. When the pressure in the pinna reaches the blood pressure, the blood flow stops. That's why just draining it won't always work.

 

[2468Chickensrgr8]

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LOL !!!!

"they neatly and quickly extracted just under 400 bucks from my wallet".........yes we have been there before ......

 

[bwebb7]

If you get some of that rolled cotton like they put around your head for a perm) you can break off 6 inches of that and push it down in her ear, (straight down towards the floor) and then squirt the ear solution in the cotton. It will help to get and keep the medicine down in there.

 

[sonew123]

with her ears covered like that wont that inhibit bacteria growth? Sorry I havent read the whole thread yet...

 

[chicknmania]

QuailHollowP&P :

The hematoma will not burst. When the pressure in the pinna reaches the blood pressure, the blood flow stops. That's why just draining it won't always work.

Don't know, but it was our vet that told us it can burst, and that's what causes the cauliflower ear.​