Ear infections? FOREVER?

It is with labs, 2 or 3 times a week, we take our boys outside..and spray medicated ear cleaner into their ears. We use big cotton wads to get it out and dry the ears..if we miss a couple of days..they get smelly and gross again. I think if we could get rid of the infection we would do ok..but it seems like we can never really clear it up.

awwwws the poor thing. There might be a trigger for them though. I have seen dogs with allergies to certain things. Sometimes it's something in the food, sometimes it's environmental, but there could be an allergen trigger that isn't being looked at. Just a thought :) It works that way with people so might very well work that way with dogs.

I have a black lab too and he too has periodic infections in his ears. Our vet told us that once a dog gets a ear infection, it gets chronic but is nothing to worry about if we take good care. So we clean his ears once a week and put a few ear drops and he is fine now.

I have three cockers right now and take care of about 120 cocker ears. The biggest help is to get a proper hair cut. One has to air the ear. cockers get infections because the ear is warm and moist. air dries it out. The upper third of the ear should be shaven inside and out. Most important is that the hidden part turned to the body is free of hair. Then air gets into the ear with every step the dogs takes. One can tie the ears back for half a day by fastening them with clothes pins in the back of the neck, but pinch only the hair, not the skin! A great help is the ear cleaner made by biogroom, it is an American product which one just pours a little into the ears. In spite of that the ear tube of the cocker is very long and narrow my personal dogs about never have an ear infection. The sold ones who don`t get a proper haircut every 4 to 6 weeks do get ear infections out of neglect. The best medication that is sold here at the vets is called Surolan. I hope this helps your dog.