The Border Collie has a pair of sensitive and beautiful ears. If parents want to keep the Border Collie's ears healthy and beautiful, they need to take care of them in time. It is easy for grease, dust and moisture to accumulate in the ear canal of Border Collies. The outer ear hair is easy to breed ear mites and other bacteria. If not cleaned in time, it is easy to develop ear mite disease, and dirt is deposited in the ear canal, leading to earwax infection. In order to avoid this situation, parents should take care of the Border Collie's ears in time to ensure its health. Today, the editor will share with you some knowledge about how to clean Border Collie’s ears and related ear diseases.

How to wash Border Collie ears?

1. Alcohol cotton ball disinfection

First use alcohol cotton balls to disinfect the external auditory canal of the Border Collie, then use 3% sodium bicarbonate ear drops or 2% boric acid water to drop on the earwax. After the dried earwax softens, use small tweezers to gently remove it. Tweezers cannot If the dog is inserted too deep, you must concentrate on it. If the Border Collie shakes its head, take out the forceps quickly to avoid puncturing the eardrum or piercing the ear canal mucosa.

2. Boric acid glycerin ear drops

For border collies with inflammation in the ear canal, 4% boric acid glycerin ear drops, 2.5% chloramphenicol glycerin ear drops, cortisone neomycin ear drops and other ear drops can be used, 3 times a day. In addition, the long hair near the Border Collie's ear canal should be trimmed regularly to prevent shampoo and water from splashing into the ear canal when bathing.

How to distinguish earwax and ear mites in Border Collies:

1. If your Border Collie has ear mites, the dirt will not be easily crushed, a bit like the oily dirt in a bicycle. If it is earwax, it should be dust accumulated, easy to dry, and crushed as soon as it is crushed. It also depends on whether the Border Collie often scratches its ears. If so, it is basically ear mites.

2. Does the Border Collie still smell bad after just taking a bath? And the smell is not the fishy smell of the Border Collie itself, but a stench. Border Collies also like to scratch their ears. If so, it may be due to excessive accumulation of earwax.

3. The main symptoms of Border Collie ears are that the sick dog shakes his head, scratches or rubs the affected ear. There is a dark brown wax and exudate in the ear canal, sometimes with a phosphorus-like crust. Examining the ear canal with an otoscope can reveal tiny white or flesh-colored ear itch mites moving on the dark brown exudate. Examination of the exudate with a magnifying glass or under a low-power microscope can prove to be Border Collie ear itch mites. If the meninges are invaded, the sick dog will show symptoms of madness.

After reading the above content, you will no longer have to worry about the essential common sense of border collie ear cleaning. It is not difficult to master the above little common sense so that you can raise Border Collies. I hope the above content can give you some help.