To Cat Owners

[botias]

Jones is not only the world's most boring cat, she also has another distinction: the cleanest ears that I have ever seen. When I took her to the vet for the first time, one of the things he did was stick a magnifying scope in her ear and show me the yucky mites crawling around in there. She just loved that I'm sure, the mites and the scope. He then cleaned her ears out. Jones: Feline Water Torture! Why???? What looked like a quart of gunk was gently washed from her poor infested ear canals. He sent me home with a treatment regimen which involved more cleaning, medication, a wait period, then more medication. Poor kitty. But that was a couple of years ago and her ears are still perfectly clean and she never scratches at them with her hind claws or shakes her head. I always thought that cats just had ear wax, but that dark goop seems to be exclusively a symptom of ear mites. I recommend exercising your totalitarian authority over your cats and treating them for ear mites. I wish I had done it for all my cats.

Comments

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

Yes, I've always found that once they're treated for those mites - that's it - never again.

[botias.livejournal.com]

Sweet! Modern medicine is really a beautiful thing sometimes.

[deborahw37.livejournal.com]

Ear mites drive kitties mad but luckily once they're gone they stay gone!

[botias.livejournal.com]

What could be more maddening than an infestation of the ear canal? Makes me itch just to think of it! I'm glad they are not like fleas.

[cleoius.livejournal.com]

When i first got the kittens, I thought Platina had ear mites. But it turned out to be an ear infection instead in the one ear. But she had that yucky gunk that needed cleaning out.....but it never passed on to MAxie, or to the crazy cat lady's hoarde. I bet she felt better once the infection was gone, and I no longer had to stick drops in her ear! XD