Yep. We are going to take her in. Just asking people here their experience, if they have seen this before.
She does need to see a vet to find out what is the problem: infection or mites. After the problem is cleared you will need to clean her ears periodically.
I’ve owned a long-eared breed over the past years that are prone to ear infections. I’ve tried all kinds of cleaners from the vet and over the counter. The best one is Derma-pet ear cleanser. You can purchase it either through your vet or over the web. Just do a web search for it.
Once I started using this the dogs never had another ear infection. I used it about twice a week as a preventative. On the dog I have now I use it once a week. She is five years old now and has never had an ear infection.
If you go to DermaPet’s website
http://www.dermapet.com/prod-09.html
There should be a tutorial somewhere there to show you how to properly clean a dog’s ears.
This product will keep the PH in the ear acidic to help prevent infections. And I am not affiliated with the company in any way. I have just been using it for years and so have many other owners of this type of dog.
Sounds like a fungus. My Bichon has had a few episodes and the vet prescribes ear drops. Don’t try home remedies.
Her ears can get nastily infected w/o her exhibiting signs of distress over it.
Get it cleaned up with a visit or two to the vet and then work to keep the ears flushed out on a regular basis after that.
Not going to read the whole thread, so this may have been covered, but after lots of years of raising and breeding goldens, best suggestion I have is, yes, a vet visit certainly to get this cleared up because it is probably an infection (my guess is yeast). However, in the future, I recommend a food without grain, or at least without corn or wheat. Even better is a raw food diet, but most people are not willing to do that. I have tried various concoctions throughout the 20 some odd years I’ve been doing this, and most things will work as far as keeping them clean if are religious about doing that, and your Vet will certainly be willing to sell you something specifically made for that.
But, when I feed a food without grain, I simply don’t need to worry about ears and only clean them when I bathe the dog, and I do use something in them when the dog goes swimming, just in case.
That’s my best advice.
Good luck.
My old Golden Retriever used to get that fairly frequently. Your first step is to get the dog to the vet to get both her ears checked, flushed and cleaned out.
Likely the vet will also give you some antibiotic drops to put in one or both her ears to clear up the infection. The best way to keep the infection from coming back is to periodically inspect and clean her ears frequently (every few weeks) to keep the infection from coming back.
The problem with retrievers, labs, cocker spaniels and dogs with heavy hair or fur on their ears is their ears become perfect breeding grounds for bacterial infections or worse yet - ear mites. It's just part of the breed that you'll need to learn to deal with.
First step is the vet and to do the follow up care necessary to eliminate the infection and prevent it from coming back.
Best of luck.