Is the dirty ear mites in dogs? A post to answer you

 8:49am, 23 September 2025

The ear canal of a dog is an L-shaped structure, which is easy to hide dirt, especially for dogs with long ears. If you do not pay attention to cleaning your ears on time, a lot of vegetable oils and stains will be caused in the ear canal, and ear mites may also grow. This unclean thing will make the dog's ears itchy, smelly, inflammation, and it will affect its hearing when it is severe.

Although the dirty ears of dogs may not be ear mites, long-term cleaning of ears will attract ear mites. Therefore, pet owners must pay attention to cleaning and preventing them.

1. Pay attention to protection and environmental sanitation

Generally speaking, if the dog's ears are just a little dirty but not itchy, it is very likely that the owner must dig it out for it. However, if the dog often shakes his head and scratches his ears, there is a dark brown fruit wax containing a odor in the ear canal, and most of them are ear mites.

If you are raising other pets at home, you must pay attention to protecting the affected dogs independently to prevent mutual infection. You should clean and clean the dogs and keep a good environment. After cleaning the daily necessities of your dog, you need to get enough exposure to the sun to sterilize and remove mites.

2. Use ear potion to clean the ears

If there are a lot of ear hair in the dog's ears, pet owners can first use surgical forceps to carefully and quickly remove the ear hair, then use the cotton to dip in cooking oil to soften it to remove stains and hard scabs on the inner wall of the ear, then lift up the ear holes inside the ear, add some waning ear potion to it, and use massage and rub to make the ear wash evenly in the ear canal. After a while, the dog will shook its head and shake it, and finally wipe it clean with soft toilet paper.

3. Pay great attention to preventing ear mites. Pet owners can use the above method to treat the dog's ears for a period of time until the dog's ear canal is clean, the ears will no longer itch, and the unclean things cannot be thrown out.

It is also necessary to pay great attention to cleaning and prevent it on time. When bathing dogs, some protective measures should be taken to prevent water, wet and cold in their ears. In addition, supplement the dog with vitamins in moderation and feed some foods with high nutritional value to help the dog improve its physical fitness, so that the dog can get better quickly.