Ear Mites Control - Do"s and Don"ts in Treating Them
Right now we are going to talk about dirty ears and ear mites.
So here's this wonderful cat and he has some dirt in his ears.
When I flip the ear back you can see that there's some brown, crumbly wax in there.
So in order to clean this out and check it for ear mites, jus put a little bit of cleaner on the gauze and kind of soak a little q tip in there and scoop some of that nasty stuff out of there.
You can see that his ears are very itchy.
He's helping actually with the process and that thick wax.
It's pretty indicative of ear mites.
This type of mite wax is usually crumbly and thick like that.
The ear mites are actually microscopic so you can't see them without magnification, but they're little white bugs that craw around dint their ear.
So make sure to have this cat some treatment for his ear mites to take care of that itchiness that he's experiencing goes away.
If your cat goes out frequently or if it is an indoor outdoor cat, or if you come across a stray that you decide to make your own, you may notice that these cats get problems with their ears and their skin and basically ear mites are extremely common.
Fleas and ticks are also very much prevalent and so is a ring worm which is really a fungus of the skin.
All of these have caused significant harm on your beloved cat or dog.
The ear mites are the most common cause of ear infection in cats.
An ear infection will show up in two ways: one you will see dark debris inside the kitty's ears and two, one might see the cat really batting at his ears, shaking his head and then one would notice the debris afterwards.
They could just be infected, but in most cases, those cats have ear mites.
There are over the counter products for ear mites that are little bottles of things that one can put in the cat's ears.
The thing is, cats hate it! Cats hate getting wet and they hate putting stuff in their ears and you generally have to do it two weeks on, two weeks off, two weeks on so that you can get the eggs.
This is mainly because it will only kill the adults, it won't kill the eggs and you will have to wait until the eggs hatch and you may have to do that for a couple of months.
So treating them over the counter is cheaper, but can be very difficult.
So taking them to the vet, you might find that there are lots of things that are a whole lot easier: drops that go on their back, or even drops that go in the ears.
This is specifically a one time treatment and it is just so much, the office call is well worth is compared to what you go through trying to treat it at home.
So here's this wonderful cat and he has some dirt in his ears.
When I flip the ear back you can see that there's some brown, crumbly wax in there.
So in order to clean this out and check it for ear mites, jus put a little bit of cleaner on the gauze and kind of soak a little q tip in there and scoop some of that nasty stuff out of there.
You can see that his ears are very itchy.
He's helping actually with the process and that thick wax.
It's pretty indicative of ear mites.
This type of mite wax is usually crumbly and thick like that.
The ear mites are actually microscopic so you can't see them without magnification, but they're little white bugs that craw around dint their ear.
So make sure to have this cat some treatment for his ear mites to take care of that itchiness that he's experiencing goes away.
If your cat goes out frequently or if it is an indoor outdoor cat, or if you come across a stray that you decide to make your own, you may notice that these cats get problems with their ears and their skin and basically ear mites are extremely common.
Fleas and ticks are also very much prevalent and so is a ring worm which is really a fungus of the skin.
All of these have caused significant harm on your beloved cat or dog.
The ear mites are the most common cause of ear infection in cats.
An ear infection will show up in two ways: one you will see dark debris inside the kitty's ears and two, one might see the cat really batting at his ears, shaking his head and then one would notice the debris afterwards.
They could just be infected, but in most cases, those cats have ear mites.
There are over the counter products for ear mites that are little bottles of things that one can put in the cat's ears.
The thing is, cats hate it! Cats hate getting wet and they hate putting stuff in their ears and you generally have to do it two weeks on, two weeks off, two weeks on so that you can get the eggs.
This is mainly because it will only kill the adults, it won't kill the eggs and you will have to wait until the eggs hatch and you may have to do that for a couple of months.
So treating them over the counter is cheaper, but can be very difficult.
So taking them to the vet, you might find that there are lots of things that are a whole lot easier: drops that go on their back, or even drops that go in the ears.
This is specifically a one time treatment and it is just so much, the office call is well worth is compared to what you go through trying to treat it at home.