Does your cat or dog have itchy ears? Check this out:

[Paper Roses]

For the past several years my kitty has suffered from itchy ears, and lately it has been getting worse.
I have had her to two Veterinary hospitals, she has seen 5 Vets. All have told me the same thing. Her ears are clean, she has no parasites, they could not find the problem.
Certain medications were tried but with no success.
Tritop
Tresaderm
TrizEDTA
None of these medications did the job. Last week she was scratching so badly that I took her again to the vet.
I saw a new Doc who again checked her rears. She did a flush and then told me that my kitty has ear wax deep in her left ear. They were able to flush the right fairly well but the left did not seem to respond.

She gave me a bottle of ZYMOX 'plus'. The Vet did the first treatment and instructed me to treat her daily with drops in both ears. Two days after starting the treatment, in the AM, she got up with a large brownish-yellow streak of goop from her left ear. A very small amount from her right. In the night, the drops must have dissolved the wax and drained out.
The treatment is for 7 days but after the incident with the stain, she had not scratched her ears once! I have one more day to go. She is not fond of the drops but seems resigned to my wrapping her up and letting me do the job.
This stuff seemed to clear out whatever wax was in the ears. She is back to her old kitty self. What a relief.
I called the Vet and told her what happened. From what she said, this stuff is great in some situations like this. I guess the stuff is pretty potent.


I Googled the product. 273 reviews, amazing to read. Five stars all over. All in praise of this product for both cats and dogs.
If your pet has an ear problem, read about this product and talk to your Vet. This might be a help.
I know it was for my poor kitty. Wish someone had suggested this sooner. Would have saved me a ton of money and saved my kitty a lot of suffering.

http://www.amazon.com/Pet-King-Brands-Enzymatic-1-25-Ounce/dp/B0066VLPGA

[Curmudgeoness]

1. This is good to know.

My kitty often scratches at his ear, but as your experience was, so has mine----the ears are clean and no parasites. The itching is not too bad for my kitty, but I do notice it. Next time I am at the vet's office, I will ask if this might help him. At this point, I have just been told to use kitty ear wipes for that one ear.

Thanks for posting.

[ginnyinWI]

2. hmmm

My cat shakes her head regularly--a quick shake. I wonder if she's got ear wax? She also scratched in front of her ear so much that she got a skin infection. The vet gave us antibiotic for it but didn't say anything about the ears. At the time I was thinking maybe fleas so I didn't think of ears either.

Was your cat shaking her head--kind of a quick shake, like they do?

[Paper Roses]

3. Yes, she was shaking her head too. I forgot to mention that.

The shaking had also stopped. Her exterior ears are no longer red. Still no scratching.
I know she feels better because she is eating like a demon and is now playing with her toys and being a great busy-body, as she used to be.

[TorchTheWitch]

4. I'd have her ears checked for wax build up

Head shaking in both cats and dogs usually is because of some kind of irritant in one or both ears. That head shaking can also cause a hematoma on the ear. My first doggie got one just shaking his head because of a flying bug irritatingly buzzing around his head though eventually he snapped said bug out the air and ate it. It was gross (the hematoma that is, though if the bug was bigger that also would have been pretty gross). Didn't hurt him, but he got this icky big ball of blood and fluid near the top of his ear that was so big and heavy it made his ear droop over. He had to have it drained and a drain kept in for a week that dripped gunk all over the place and that had to be rinsed out every day and then go back to the vet to have the drain removed.

Dogs with stand up ears and cats end up with a crinkly misshapen ear from a healed hematoma since even with draining and bandaging and all that the ear cartilage gets all warped and wavy. You don't have to have a hematoma drained all the time, but if you let it go away on its own you get a REALLY crinkled and misshapen ear. Though he did get some wrinkled cartilage that put a slight bend in at the tip that looked weird you didn't really notice it much. It upset me though since he had such perfect stand up ears. Floppy eared dogs you can let it heal on it's own usually and probably won't notice anything different about the ear, but you can feel the wrinkled healed cartilage.

Scared the hell out of me when he got it though. It showed up all big and squishy and disgusting in a matter of a few hours. One minute he's irritated by a flying insect acting rudely, with his perfect stand up ears and a few hours later he comes to tell me it's supper time and I notice his one ear is drooping half hours. Take a closer look, and EEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWW!!!! Nasty big squishy sack of blood and fluid that scared the crap out of me. I thought for sure that it was some kind of reaction to a stinging bug of some sort and raced him to the vet. Turned out it was just a hematoma from doing that head shake thing because the damn bug (that I'm forever thrilled that he murdered) was being a teeny annoying git doing laps around his head.

So, yeah. Have the ears checked out. That head shaking thing is more common from ear wax build up than scratching usually is. At least it is in dogs for the most part. Maybe cats are more inclined to scratch at them since shaking ones head and making the lips flap around just might be too undignified for a cat (at least where anyone can see them being undignified - and if caught being undignified will of course lie about it outrageously). Dogs, on the other hand, tend to take great joy in acting as ridiculous as possible particularly in public where it may embarrass you.