[FlamingoFan]

Originally Posted by spugs

My puppy hated having it done and screamed, they used the tongs and pulled out big clumps and it was his first time at the groomers. I dont want to have it done if he doesnt have to so im using a baby wipe once a week to clean his ears and hopefully that will keep he muck levels down.

I was wondering if there was some kind of wipes that I could use. With our lab we squirted in a liquid cleaner and were able to dig down in with a q-tip to get the gunk out.....Stellas ears seem way too small and delicate for that.

[tunisianswife]

so glad I did a search and found this, and thanks for the video link as well. I had my dogs in for their yearly physical and shots when I mentioned that no matter how much I clean the one ear of my shih tzu, the cotton ball is brown.

My groomer that I had right up until I started grooming them myself would not pluck their ears. My vet said that there was/is a debate about this. Several years ago the consensus was not to pluck that it caused more infections by having no hair in the ears to trap, but in some breeds where ear infections are common(he referred to the hair in the ears as dogs that have 'poodle hair in their ears'), they found that infections were more common if not plucked.

I found some ear powder online and ordered it last night. Just for the sake of things, after watching the video, I decided to see if pulling some out w/o the powder caused any type of reaction from my shih tzu and it didn't. I'll wait until I get the ear powder though before I do a thorough job on him and the lhasa.

thanks again!