Ear Mites

[smudgersmith 2]

Hoping someone can help out, both my Border & Cockers pups are regularly suffering from ear mites, I have been to the vets on 4 separate occasions and religiously given them their drops as advised by the Vet. However within a few weeks they are suffering again.

 

It’s the money what’s the problem (apart from the £35 consultation fee!!! ) it’s the drop’s don’t seem to be working.

 

Can anyone advice on what’s avialable, or anyone got a method of treating the bloody mites and keeping them away from my dogs.

 

Thanks

[borderboy 80]

I used cheap ear drops from the petshop which cleared it up for me... although i have heard good things about thornit powder?

 

Thornit Powder

Edited July 19, 2007 by borderboy

[FastDogz 155]

Thornit powder

[Guest MOLLY]

Ear mites can live in the enviroment and can transfer from dog to dog. I would burn any bedding, totally disinfect your kennels and give the dogs a bloody good bath.....then start the treatment again as the eggs and larve may be in the ears still.

MOLL.

[J Darcy 5,871]

Try Duramitex, i used this to spray my kennels and ferret hutch before i put the bedding in. Its used for mites an stuff on pigeons and their lofts.

 

 

i wouldnt, not in the ears anyway.

 

treat the ear mites with what the vet prescribes ..i.ew canaural (orange/brown bottle), clean the dogs ears twice a day, lots of dark brown discharge will appear. I use some kitchen towel wrapped round my little finger. i have known this condition to not go away totally on the odd occasion, but the dog will feel much better and live a happy life if kept on this treatment IMHO. Good luck.

[mackay 3,328]

Benzyl benzoate is difficult to get now, if possible at all.

Get stuff from the chemist called Ascabol its for lice , crabs and scabies (watch the space around you clear when you ask for it) mix it 50% with liquid parafin and syringe it liberly into the ear and massage it in, the parafin breaks up any wax and the Ascabol kills the mite. Don't tell them it's for animal treatment or they won't sell you it.

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Ear Mites? Funny old things, them. Of my four Dogs, one started getting ear mites. And, by god, he got them to the point where both he and I were screaming and ripping at our own ears! Odd thing is; I don't remember him having any problem in the house I first brought him to. That had carpets and two of my present Dogs already lived there. They've never had a problem.

 

Then we all moved to another place and lived on a carpet for a year. Big Dog started getting absolute hell from ear mites. Other two were fine. Got a fourth Dog. No problems there. Put down laminate flooring. Nothing changed.

 

Big Dog has dense, smooth fur and proportionately large ears. But I really can't see why he should get hell and none of the others did. My terrier(s) ears were comparable. No problem there.

 

I too paid the white coats mortgage for a month. C*** gave me some stuff to put in his ears which, I read on the label, could send the Dog " Psychotic ". Yeah. That's right. And that after eighty odd quid for his only comment on the Dog to be what large, strong, healthy teeth he has. Now he expected me to use this shit and hope my large, immensely powerful, very fit, purpose bred Guard Dog with the " Large, strong, healthy teeth " didn't turn psychotic on me.

 

Guess what I did with that shit ....?

 

Then I bought some THORNIT. I'd like to say, hand on heart, that that was the end of the problem. It wasn't though. But it did give my poor Dog anything up to a few months at a time relief from the plague. On that basis alone, I'd whole heartedly reccomend ye just get some and discover the joys of trying to spill a pinch of powder into the ears of a Dog who's learned the craic! Boy! Did I have some 'fun' evenings with my big Dog!

 

Molly may have a point; Burn ye entire property to the ground after the initial treatment. That should rid the place of the damn things? Alternatively, get a professional pest controller in to blitz the place with the big F.

 

But here's the twist in my tale: I Am a pester. I have my own 'F', and the equipment and training to use it. I never have though. Not in here. I moved from uk to Eire. My cottage has bare, concrete floors. I've been here over a year and that damn Dog has never so much as scratched his ears! Don't look to me for explanations. Damned if I have any. But it just seems, to me, as if he 'picked up' those mites, repeatedly, in just the one home. I can only surmize that the THORNIT killed the last ones he had, before we came here, and now he's free of them?

 

Thinking back on what I've just said? I'd suggest ye treat the Dogs with THORNIT and then get a pester in to treat the property with 'FW'. He'll know what I'm on about and should charge ye about the fifty quid mark. In my 'professional opinion' that should just about sort it

 

Please do let us know how ye get on. This is a subject close to my heart!

[smudgersmith 2]

Gentlemen,

 

Thank you all for your comments & suggestions. Will give it a bash. Will report back the results.

 

Smudger

[Pipey Magregor 0]

Done a quick search on this and this website says the treat the dogs whole body with any treatment you may use as the parasites can move around the body, which probably explains why some people who's dogs have had recurring cases have only treated the dogs ears.

[Irish Lurcher 1,013]

Have you considered cutting its ears off.

 

Only joking good luck with the treatment