[WicketLeia]

My Pyr constantly has yeasty ears, which need cleaning at least once a week. The vet has checked them and it's just yeast.. no infection or anything.

What would be a good ear cleaner for her? I struggle with squirting liquid down her ears - she hates that and runs from me. I've used alcohol on a cotton ball and that seems to do the trick, but I've heard that can dry out her ears.

Suggestions?

[briteday]

Have you tried a carb-free diet? Yeast thrive on sugar and carbs break down into sugars.

Perhaps just a short trial on some carb-free kibble until your dog gets past the yeast thing.

[TeddieXRuxpin]

I'd give the Blue Powder Ear Treatment a try or at least read about it. I've been using it on Teddie and it's worked like a charm. After buying different drops and flushes nothing worked. So I tried this and it's really helped. The best part is that it doesn't dry out the ears.
http://www.doglinks.co.nz/health/Ear_treatment.htm

One of the biggest things you have to do is warm up the treatment. I get a glass of really warm water and set the bottle of the liquid in it for a few minutes. Just so it gets warm. You can try this with the alcohol.

Teddie was the same way and would go crazy until I started warming them up. Now he just stands there and lets me put in how ever much I need to.

Good luck.

[Dog5]

My dogs don't like the squirting either. I just squirt a little Epi-Otic cleaner in a cup, dip a q-tip in it and clean their ears that way.

[agility collie mom]

Instead of filling the ear canal with the cleaner you can saturate cotton balls insert into the ear canal and massage. The majority of dogs don't mind this because it is less of a shock than filling the ear canal. Also if you warm the ear cleaner prior to cleaning the ears (kind of like warming a baby bottle up), they don't mind it as much either. Also nothing smaller than your cotton balls and pinkey finger should ever be inserted into an ear canal.