Getting straight to the point. I have 3 cats. My mom has 3 cats. My brother has 1, and we all live together so there are 7 cats total. My three (in order: a black female 3 year old named Rika, a 2 year old grey tabby girl named Aeryn, and a 11 month old Siamese girl named Phoebe), seem to be completely different but my point being.. we have ear mites. What I dont get, is the two grey tabbies of the 7 dont ever have mites. Neither does my mothers boy siamese or her little calico kitten.
My siamese, black cat, and my brothers cat got ear mites. God only knows from where, they all used to be so clean. But it spread. Walmart has this ear mite droplets you put in, and it says "4-5 drops per 15 pounds, per day, per cat" with instructions on how to do it. So I do it. It seems the mites are going away in my black cat, but a trip to the vet and he says she has an ear infection! I got some medicine for it, and he says she has no mites whatsoever. My siamese got an ear infection before and I hadnt put two and two together, nwo she has an ear infection so bad that her ear is red and I have to use the medicine on her as well.
My question being, is there some easier way to get rid of ear mites? Because it seems the medication you can buy is giving my cats severe ear infections.. and if it comes to either them having mites or an ear infection, I chose the mites.. Also, I wonder if just cleaning their ears out with say a q-tip would work?
My siamese, black cat, and my brothers cat got ear mites. God only knows from where, they all used to be so clean. But it spread. Walmart has this ear mite droplets you put in, and it says "4-5 drops per 15 pounds, per day, per cat" with instructions on how to do it. So I do it. It seems the mites are going away in my black cat, but a trip to the vet and he says she has an ear infection! I got some medicine for it, and he says she has no mites whatsoever. My siamese got an ear infection before and I hadnt put two and two together, nwo she has an ear infection so bad that her ear is red and I have to use the medicine on her as well.
My question being, is there some easier way to get rid of ear mites? Because it seems the medication you can buy is giving my cats severe ear infections.. and if it comes to either them having mites or an ear infection, I chose the mites.. Also, I wonder if just cleaning their ears out with say a q-tip would work?