<div dir="ltr">Well, we got good news and bad news at the vet on Friday. Browyn's ear infection is completely gone! One of the things I like at my vet's office is he has a video earscope. So, he sees what I see. He also saves all the images of the ears and puts in what we had used to treat the ear. Yes, it took four treatments to completely clear up the ear, but we could see it was improving by leaps and bounds with each treatment. <div>
<br></div><div>I know lots of people have been wondering how often to clean ears. I clean ears once a week on Monday. If I get a lot of wax, gunk, dirt, then that dog has ears cleaned on Thursday. If they are still nasty I clean them again on Saturday. At this point I am probably using foaming ear cleaner. I love it it breaks up all the gunk in the ear and gets it up where you can get it out. Depending on what it looks and smells like, I very likely am making an appointment with the vet. No, I don't use blue ear cleaner. I have it on hand and in the right situation, I would use it. It is just that all three of my hounds have allergies. Usually gross ears are accompanied with bleeding ulcers in the ear. If I had sores like that and you poured alcohol with boric acid on them, I would never let you touch me again. We have learned we can't use any products with alcohol on Bugsey anyway. He has extremely sensitive skin from the deep reaches of the earth. The DH always says he inherited my skin. While it technically isn't possible, we both have the same skin problems. I will say it gives me an edge when dealing with his skin problems, and I feel his pain.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Beauford was the bad news, but it could have been terrible, so I will take it. He had this nasty lump/sore between his lip and chin. It was getting worse with my home first aid. So, he went in on Friday. The vet stuck a needle upwards into the sore. Oh it looked painful, but I was putting on my brave face because Beauford is my drama queen. Tons of blood came out of the needle. You should have seen the looks on the vet tech's and vet's faces. I hadn't really been worried until then. They thought it was cancer, but the cytology was full of white blood cells. It is a good old fashioned abscess. He is now on Cipro and I have to put this high powered antibiotic ointment on it 3x a day. He got this from running across the deck. Browyn jumped in front of him and he slide. It was skinned up, but then got infected. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I am making jam/jelly just as fast as I can with all the apples on the trees this year. The hounds have discovered how to get into my inside stash of apple and steal one and eat the whole thing.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The good news is they are producing tons of drool for the people and hounds on the drool that need it.</div><div><br></div><div>Jennifer with Beauford, Bugsey and Browyn the Fairy Princess</div></div>