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Jackson has ear mites :(

post #1 of 11
1/16/12 at 8:11am
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He had been occasionally flattening his ears and scratching so I took him to the vet and he has ear mites. I had them go ahead and treat him while I was there and I brought home medicine to treat all my other animals. 

 

Poor baby. 

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post #2 of 11
1/16/12 at 8:25am
Poor little guy!

I've had ear mites with mine in the past and boy do they hate the ear drops! If the vet didn't tell you, warm up the solution by rubbing the bottle between your palms for a bit before you put them in his ears. Its much more stressful to them dropping in a cold solution into their warm ears.
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post #3 of 11
1/16/12 at 9:03am
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Thanks for the tip on warming it. The dogs are easy. Cooper my other cat wasn't very cooperative though. 

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post #4 of 11
1/16/12 at 12:07pm

OMG, I don't envy you.  My Sven gets an over abundance of ear wax built up, so we have to clean his ears often, and we happened to do it last night.  You'd have thought we were trying to kill him laughing02.gif.  Both DH and I ended up with the ear cleaning solution in OUR eyes because of all the head shaking going on rolleyes02.gif.  I fully expected him to run away afterwards, but he didn't.  He stayed on the bed and even purred afterwards, so I guess he realized we were trying to help, once the ordeal was over with rub.gif  Wish I could warm that bottles, but it's probably 16 oz.  Too big to just roll in the palm of my hand.

 

So, do you just have to do one application, or several? 

 

 

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post #5 of 11
1/16/12 at 12:10pm

You know Revlolution is the easy way to solve that problem, right?

 

We've had cats we treated for months, unsuccessfully.

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post #6 of 11
1/16/12 at 1:32pm
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Originally Posted by mrsgreenjeens View Post

OMG, I don't envy you.  My Sven gets an over abundance of ear wax built up, so we have to clean his ears often, and we happened to do it last night.  You'd have thought we were trying to kill him laughing02.gif.  Both DH and I ended up with the ear cleaning solution in OUR eyes because of all the head shaking going on rolleyes02.gif.  I fully expected him to run away afterwards, but he didn't.  He stayed on the bed and even purred afterwards, so I guess he realized we were trying to help, once the ordeal was over with rub.gif  Wish I could warm that bottles, but it's probably 16 oz.  Too big to just roll in the palm of my hand.

 

So, do you just have to do one application, or several? 

 

 


I hear ya! I cleaned Jacksons ears about 2 weeks ago and oh my gosh he shook his head and I had ear cleaning solution all over my face, glasses and in my mouth..sigh.

 

Jackson is covered because the vet gave him something while he was there. But I brought home medicine for Cooper and the dogs, they get daily for a week and then twice a week for the next 2 weeks. None of them have any symptoms so this is just to be safe, I don't want a reinfestation. 

 

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post #7 of 11
1/16/12 at 1:35pm
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Originally Posted by mrblanche View Post

You know Revlolution is the easy way to solve that problem, right?

 

We've had cats we treated for months, unsuccessfully.



Yes, I considered advantage multi but I'd have to buy it for 3 dogs and 2 cats just to be safe. Jacksons case is mild so I'm going to give this a try first. 

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post #8 of 11
1/16/12 at 3:48pm
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Originally Posted by mrblanche View Post

You know Revlolution is the easy way to solve that problem, right?

 

We've had cats we treated for months, unsuccessfully.



That's what worked for rbheart.gifLynxxrbheart.gif & Midnight. They never had a problem with mites again.

 

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post #9 of 11
1/20/12 at 8:17am

I've heard good things about Revolution as well. My sister used it on her tabby and it seemed to help.

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post #10 of 11
1/23/12 at 7:49am
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He is much much better. I'm taking him in for his one week follow up tomorrow. 

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post #11 of 11
1/23/12 at 12:50pm

For us the bottle treatment didn't work - they still had to have the professional cleaning and treatment done by the vet, when the mites still weren't gone after three weeks.  (Not sure what was used, could have been Revolution I suppose.)  At any rate, we've been mite-free ever since!  (And believe me, I check obsessively!)

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