I found that when many poop shovelers around me wiped their ears, they always put a cotton swab into the cat's ear canal and wiped it. I really wanted to rush over and say loudly: Let go of that cat!
If you open the cat's ears, the ear canal is very clean, and the shoveler does not need to wash the cat's ears. If you open it and find that there is dirt in the cat's ear canal, and using a clean cotton ball can wipe out a lot of dirty things, you need to wash the cat's ears.
Don't use cotton swabs anymore! Keep your cotton swab away from your cat!
The ear canals of cats and dogs are both L-shaped structures. If the shoveler uses a cotton swab to poke the ear wax, the earwax will accumulate deep into the ear canal. It will accumulate! The pressure is getting tighter and tighter! To clean the ear canal, you still need to use ear washing liquid for dogs and cats! How to use
ear washing solution?
One word: 未.
When a cat's ear canal has a strange smell and secretion, the owner can take it to the hospital for diagnosis first. It is not expensive. If the result is that the ear canal is dirty, just buy a bottle of ear washing liquid at home to solve the problem.
Correct use of ear scrub:
1. To soothe the cat, you can wrap it in a towel.
2. Open your ears and expose your ear canal, and inject ear cleanser. Please refer to the specific dosage. If the ears are dirty and fill the ear canal, you can clean it cleaner.
3. Rub the ears for about one minute.
4. Release your hand and let the cat throw out the dirty things.
5. Use a cotton ball or tissue to wipe the dirt and liquid from the cat's outer auricles.
If the diagnosis result is ear mites, ear washing liquid is used with ear mites, which will be effective soon. Ear mites are better cured than common diseases such as ringworm and stomatitis in cats.
Ear mites are not scary. The shoveler should detect and treat them early, otherwise the cat will always scratch the ears and cause ear hematoma. In addition to ear washing liquid + ear mite medicine, the best treatment method is also combined with external deworming, which has better treatment effect and faster recovery.
No matter whether the cat is ear mites or not, the cat owner should not use cotton swabs to clean the cat's ears. Use ear sanitizer~