Squirrel damaged my testudinaria elephantipes, will it heal?
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Comments (14)Xuan - I have a friend that breeds Rhodesian Ridgebacks, and she has the ear problems you describe with her dogs... the lumps of infection, fluid or blood are caused by the dog either shaking its head vigorously or scratching due to the irritating presence of a certain mite that originated with this year's locust hatching... preventing the mites from setting up housekeeping in the dogs' ears will help keep them from getting the lumps in the long run. Boosting the dogs' immune system through diet and vitamins will also help to a certain extent. Choosing a feed that's low in preservatives and fillers and high in what a dog needs will help. You can buy children's chewable every day vitamins and give them to your dog. I find them better than most vitamins made for dogs. Making sure your dog's diet includes a good dose of glucosamine chondroitin will help build and maintain strong cartilige in the ears, thus helping them to stay erect. You can buy glucosamine chondroitin for humans and break the pills in half to give your dog. From what my husband tells me, there are ear supports made of firm foam available that are shaped like the dogs ear... you simply trim away the excess ear fur on the inside of the ear and peel and stick these foam ear supports right to the ear. They will need to be replaced every couple of weeks until the dogs ears are healed into that position. If you can't find these ear supports online or from your vet, you can cut pieces of something similar to use, such as Dr. Scholl's foam shoe inserts or anything made of a rather firm, thin foam. My husband says you should be able to find the ear supports made specifically for dogs like German Shepherds and Dobermans right online. Google it, and I bet you can find ear support kits you can purchase! As a footnote, the mites in question are not usually found in great numbers in my area, but have only just come into great numbers by the hatching of certain locusts or cicadas that carry these mites. The locusts or cicadas have been dormant for several years and only just hatched this past summer. Not only have the mites become an ear problem, they've also become an allergy problem, and several people and other dog breeds in this area have been affected, breaking out in a red itchy rash that doesn't want to go away on its own. Thank you, Amazindirt, for bringing the aural hematoma to my attention... I didn't even think of it because my breed of dog seldom has this problem... at least, I've never seen an aural hematoma in any of my bulldogs... I'm sort of a stickler for maintaining clean ears due to the fact that I had one bulldog that just had the worst time with ear mites. Her ears needed constant cleaning to keep them clean and mite-free! For the most part, though, our bulldogs don't seem to have a problem with mite infestations. Hope all this information helps, Xuan!...See MoreDamage to tree trunk, what do i do?
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