How to clean a dog's ears to remove wax and help prevent ear infections

We use a commercially available cleaner EpiOtic to show how to safely clean canine ears without the use of cotton buds or wipes. Please never do this without first consulting a vet; if the ear drum is ruptured (for example due to an ear infection) you could damage hearing permanently.
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TRANSCRIPT: We're going to show you how to clean your dog's ears.
Now if you're doing this for the first time it's really important that you take it slowly and patiently
and use lots of treats because your dog might be scared of this and if you go in too fast and too hard
you could hurt them or scare them and they will...
You'll have more trouble and more trouble as time goes by whereas if you're careful and
slow and use treats your dog should enjoy this.
If you take it carefully it also means in the future
your dog will look forward to this being done. They won't run away when you lift the bottle up.
They look forward to their treat and if your dog does get an ear infection
not only will you see it quickly because you've been cleaning these ears weekly
but when you come to us to have that ear infection treated your dog won't have a problem with the ointment being put in.
So what we're doing here is we're cleaning Coco's ears. She's a Labrador and Labradors often get quite
significant wax accumulation in their ears and if we don't tackle this, as many dogs the same, they'll get yeast infections in the ears. Now
in her case we're going to use this product called Epi Otic which is without question the best for these dogs.
It is anti fungal and cleaning at the same time and we do this typically weekly at the beginning, so
very important this is not done in a dog that has an ear infection, but only when it's dirty before the infection starts,
and I think we've got this dog in time. So let's go. You use volume, you put lots in (can I get you to hold her
chin up while we do this yeah
that's it it'll just shake about) and we're going to fill that ear right it up. And it's just like water
It doesn't sting unless there's an infection. And massage below, see where I'm massaging my finger and thumb? I'm pushing in
below the opening. The ear canal runs down here, and we've got that noise, a bit of groaning.
They often do that when it's... you see it's red here.
So it's a bit itchy and she's quite enjoying that and you can see that muck coming up there. Now
I'm going to swing around. I'm not going to let her shake, come around here and do the other side.
I'm leaving that in there to soak.
And again
Probably better if it was bit warm. She's probably thinking "that's a bit cold" and here we go again.
Give it a good old massage and again
you can see what I'm doing is I'm agitating around and trying to let it sit for bit.
Now typically what I will do is do one more time. Don't move the camera. I'll just come around here, and do it again. Fill
and massage (uh-oh- not yet!)
Fill and
massage again, beautiful.
Beautiful, now that's stayed in there for a few minutes.
It's loosening up all the discharge.
Step back (and if you could just get out of the way she's about to shake her head) and we're going to let her shake
And then she's going to literally expel it all.
There we go.
Good girl. Well done!