Healthy Ears for Your Dog

By Puppy Care Education

This is a fully illustrated dog care e-book in the Dog Grooming Guides series published by Puppy Care Education.

A guide for all dog owners who want to know more about caring for their dog’s ears. Ear infections can lead to deafness and chronic ear problems, but there are many things an owner can do to help prevent them from occurring.
Many aspects of the grooming of your dog’s ears are about ear health not beauty. For long-coated dogs, trimming around and under the ear and plucking out excess ear-hair from inside the dog’s ear is about making your dog’s life healthier and more enjoyable.
This Puppy Care Education dog-grooming guide on caring for your dog’s ears is full of detailed information, drawings, and photos covering the function and care of the dog’s ear.
Your dog will be healthier and enjoy life more with well-cared-for ears.

Contents:

Table of Contents

Introduction

Form and Function of the Dog’s Ear
Structure of the Dog’s Ear
Outer Ear
Middle Ear
Inner Ear
Summary

Ear Problems of the Dog
Untreatable or Genetic Ear Problems
Treatable Ear Problems
Bacterial and Fungal Ear Infections
Ear Mites
Hematomas (UK Spelling Haematoma)

Prevention: Keeping the Ears Healthy
Cleaning Inside the Ears
Increasing Air Flow Around the Ear Opening
Plucking Inside the Ears

Deafness

• Language: English
• Publisher: Puppy Care Education
• Release date: Nov 14, 2012
• ISBN: 9781922187048

Puppy Care Education

We specialize in producing informative, fully illustrated e-books on dogs and thier care.OUR AUTHORS INCLUDEAmy FernandezAmy acquired her first Chinese Crested in 1981. In the past 27 years, her Razzmatazz kennel has produced six generations of champions.In 2003, she had the honor of judging the Mexican Xolo Specialty in Tijuana.Amy is a member of the World Dog Press, and past president of the Dog Writers Association of America (DWAA). She is a feature writer for Dog World, the AKC Gazette, Popular Dogs, Dogs in Review, and Top Notch Toys. In 2003 her book Dog Breeding As A Fine Art was the overall winner of the DWAA writing competition. Her writing has also won the Elsworth Howell award, the Robert Cole award, and the PAW Arthur Award.Puppy Care EducationBooks written by Puppy Care Education call on the expertise, and over 80 years of experience in breeding, showing, and loving dogs, and over 50 years experience in judging them, of it's in-house writer and outside consultant.

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Designed by S Bush

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Original artwork © S Bush

This Edition published in 2012 by Puppy Care Education

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Ebook ISBN: 978-1-922187-04-8

Disclaimer:

No information in this book is given as, or intended to be taken as, medical advice for your puppy or dog. Only a veterinarian who has examined your dog is qualified to give advice about the medical health care of your puppy or dog.

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Caring for your Dog’s Ears

or

ALL YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR DOG’S EARS BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK

A Grooming Guide

Puppy Care Education

Table of Contents

Introduction

Form and Function of the Dog’s Ear

Structure of the Dog’s Ear

Outer Ear

Middle Ear

Inner Ear

Summary

Ear Problems of the Dog

Untreatable or Genetic Ear Problems

Treatable Ear Problems

Bacterial and Fungal Ear Infections

Ear