Miley Has Been Rubbing Her Ears

[HugUrPup]

I think she has been rubbing her ears against her favourite outside chair. She has no knots anywhere on her except massive matted ears

I have tried brushing them out, but it's impossible. 2 weeks ago when I bath/groomed her, I thought, I won't cut them out with scissors (last time I used scissors we had an emergency vet visit for staples ) I will use the clippers. The clippers are shite and didn't get through the fur.

Tonight they are just a total mess. She is over me trying to fix them and hiding in her crate from me. I have done a bit every day for the 2 weeks but they are just tangling more and more.

I have to buy a good pair of clippers. Any suggestions please?

Oh and how ridiculous is she going to look without fur on her ears? She has always had long silky ears.. this is going to be strange. I wonder how long they will take to grow back?

I wish I didn't have a fear of the scissors, getting the little knots out before they turned into big ones was so much easier. I'm just too traumatised from the "accident" though

[HugUrPup]

I ended up washing her and taking her to the vet after an hour of back cramping grooming that was going nowhere.

The reason her ears are like that suddenly is because her fur has gone from long silky waves to super tight afro curls.

Apparently it's an age thing? I wasn't expecting it.

[Nevafollo]

I ended up washing her and taking her to the vet after an hour of back cramping grooming that was going nowhere.

The reason her ears are like that suddenly is because her fur has gone from long silky waves to super tight afro curls.

Apparently it's an age thing? I wasn't expecting it.

If you brush her ears reguarly they wont mat! Every few days with a comb and learn to splice knots if you stay on top of it you shouldnt get matted ears again

[HugUrPup]

Yeh I was using a slicker brush and normal brush, but now I have to switch to a wide tooth comb. I won't let it get like that again. It was so sudden too.. took me by surprise.

[HugUrPup]

She's still pretty adorable with short ears lol

[pebbles]

She looks a sweetie. If you get caught with a knot again, use scissors with pointy ends, open the scissors and hold them at right angle to the skin and just slide the bottom blade under the knot in the direction the hair grows, not across it. A little bit of upward pressure, away from the skin and snip through the middle of the knot and it should brush out easily. If it's a big knot you may have to snip it a couple of times. By having the scissors going in the hair growth direction and pointing slightly upwards away from the skin you just cant cut the dog and it leaves a better finish - no chunky bits cut out. Sheesh, hope that makes sense, it's really quite easy, learnt that trick when I was grooming lots of messy dogs and never snipped one

[becks]

and whenever you bath her, use conditioner on her feathering and ears (treseme conditioner works really well on hair that tends to knot up) and blow dry the coat and brush as you go.

[HugUrPup]

Thanks for the tips