She could not believe that she allowed her pet to suffer six months. As you may have guessed, there were no mites. Every week, for the last six months, this client has been cleaning her pet’s ears and treating with ear mite medication with no success.Īfter gathering her pet’s history and performing a complete physical examination, I took a swab of her pet’s ear debris, applied a special stain, and looked under the microscope for presence of yeast, bacteria and mites. She said a pet store clerk told her that it was ear mites after she described dark, gritty debris in her sheltie’s ears. I asked this new client who diagnosed this problem. One new client brought her sheltie to see me with a six-month history of ear mite infestation. Recently, I have seen an exorbitant number of new clients with pets with chronic ear infections, called otitis.
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