Holy Ear Mats!
She looks great now! Not that she looked bad before, but at least I feel better and now know to look after those ears! |
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| They felt up like crazy on the ears. It's good that you could even get the mats out. Sometimes you just have the shave them. I learned that the hard way! |
| I agree, you're very lucky you could brush them out. Asterisk had some really bad mats on her ears; like you I hadn't really thought about ears mating up. You can see what ended up happening  |
| It helped that she was pretty well drugged up after surgery. I just sat by her and carefully teased out each section. I felt bad, because I ended up pulling out some little tufts of hair, but it didn't seem to bother her. |
I was SO good with Mady's coat! Honest!  But I didn't realize I had to brush her ears as well... I thought Sheepie ears were just supposed to be all puffy and fuzzy. Turned out both her ears were just huge mats, the groomer had to shave them down... she did say her coat was in really good shape. So just like Asterisk, Mady ended up with funny rabbit ears. They're growing back slowly, there's not enough to brush, but I'm still passing the brush over them every day so she gets used to it. |
My nemesis.....Oscar's ears........ (My arch nemesis is Oscar's beard, but don't even get me started.  )It wouldn't be so bad, except one of Oscar's favorite hobbies is rubbing his ears back and forth on the carpet for a good scratching. I am totally on top of plucking ear hair, trimming and cleaning, so it's not like there's anything going on in there. I've had my vets test multiple times for mites, infections, etc., and there's never an issue, unlike the rest of his body.  But still, he rubs. And then he mats. So Ecco, Mady and Asterisk, you're not alone. Laurie and Oscar |
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