For dogs with less severe ear wax, cleaning is relatively simple. First, gently pluck the hair around your dog’s ears with your hands, pull up the ear, dab some glycerin with a cotton swab and apply it to your dog’s outer ear canal, then massage the root of your dog’s ear by squeezing it with your hands to evenly distribute the oil that enters your dog’s ear, and finally wipe it clean with a cotton swab or small cotton ball.

Ear wax cleanup: The

For dogs with less severe ear wax, cleaning is relatively simple. First, gently pluck the hair around your dog’s ears with your hands, pull up the ear, dab some glycerin with a cotton swab and apply it to your dog’s outer ear canal, then massage the root of your dog’s ear by squeezing it with your hands to evenly distribute the oil that enters your dog’s ear, and finally wipe it clean with a cotton swab or small cotton ball.

If the ear wax is too much and too hard, you have to first disinfect the external ear canal with alcohol cotton balls, then use 3% sodium bicarbonate ear drops or 2% boric acid water (you can also buy special pet ear drops from pet stores or vet hospitals) to drop on the ear wax, and after the dried ear wax softens, gently remove it with small tweezers. Be careful not to insert the tweezers too deeply, your energy should be highly concentrated at this time, and if the dog shakes its head, remove the tweezers quickly to avoid stabbing the eardrum or piercing the mucosa of the ear canal. Dogs have very delicate ears, so please be careful when cleaning them.

For ear canals with inflammation, use anti-inflammatory ear drops such as 4% boric acid glycerin ear drops, 2.5% chloramphenicol glycerin ear drops, and cortisone neomycin ear drops three times a day, two to three drops at a time. Pull your dog’s ears up to let the drops flow deep into the ears, and then massage them gently with your hands to help the drops absorb. If you are financially able to do so, it is best to go to the vet and buy special anti-inflammatory ear drops. In less serious cases, you can also use chloramphenicol eye drops instead, but if you are still not well after a few days, you should still go to the hospital.

Cleaning of ear hairs:.

For some long-haired dogs with droopy ears, the ear hairs need to be cleaned regularly, lest they act like a filter and block the normal drainage of ear wax and inflame the ear canal. Removing ear hair that grows out of the ear canal is a particularly distracting task, but dog parents who have long-haired dogs such as Pekingese, Bichons, Old English Sheepdogs, Poodles, and Yorkshires should be aware of the need to clean their ears regularly.

To clean up ear hair is to pluck ear hair, not to trim it. If you just trim, the roots of the hair will remain in the skin, and these shortened ear hairs will continue to grow, and with the appearance of new ear hairs, there will be more and more ear hairs inside the ear, which will not help to clean up the ear hairs at all. When plucking ear hair, grab a small handful of ear hair and pull it off quickly. As you can imagine this process can be somewhat painful, so the dog will feel uneasy. There is a special ear powder that makes this process a little easier.

Squeeze some ear powder into the inside of the ear before plucking and rub it in your hand. The cool, minty ear powder will ease your dog’s tension and reduce pain. Don’t worry about leaving the powder in your dog’s ears, because the cleaned ear canal is free of ear hair and the dog will shake out the excess powder when he shakes his head.

Finally, remember to massage your dog’s ear roots, caress his head, comfort and praise him after each ear pluck.