How To Clean Your Cats Ears
by: T. H. Hankey
Cats and Kittens Central
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Informative how to article discusses cleaning your cat or kitten's ear canals.
Probably the one and only place your cat doesn't cleanse itself, is inside its ears. Though I'm sure if they could wash their own ears, they would. Notice I said your cat's ears. Reason? For many cats, the last thing they want is some stranger trying to clean the inside of their ears for them. But there's exceptions to most any rule. Nevertheless if it's your cat's ears you're trying to clean, you'll have an easier way to go, being they're more trusting of you, their owner.
So-cleaning your cat's ears-why would you want to do that in the first place? Maybe you just want to give your cat that much attention, or you notice some dirt that's been in there for awhile, and you've decided it needs to be tidied up. Perhaps you're about to give him some medicine the veterinarian has prescribed for some sort of inner ear ailment, and there's some sort of pre-cleaning you see needing to be done so that the medicine isn't wasted or obstructed by ear debris of some sort. I know that's how this journey of an article started out for me. Mr. Scruffy seemed to be shaking his head to and fro a bit and getting more and more aggravated with his right ear. Enter my search and subsequent article on how to clean your cat's ears.
You will need a few things to get started. Some Extra Virgin Olive Oil-or any olive oil will do. Olive oil is generally accepted as an ear wax softener. Additionally, using olive oil is good because it has properties within it which help to alleviate minor pain and inflammation your cat may be experiencing due to scratching at his or her ear.
You will also need a cotton swab of some sort or something that is going to be effective in wiping the ear after the few minutes of ear shaking your cat is going to do because of this foreign olive oil he/she now has in its ear.
Ok-if you want-you may want to do a 'little' warming of the olive oil so that it feels a little better to your cat once you put a couple of drops into its ear. Also, 'slightly' warming the olive oil helps to activate its medicinal properties found therein, and cleaning most always seems to go better with warmer temperatures, anyway.
You've put a couple of warm drops of olive oil in to your cat's ears. They've walked around shaking their head for the better part of five minutes. You've scooped him or her back into your loving arms armed with a cotton ball or swab, etc, in your other hand. You've wiped out your cat's ears. There you're done. Wait! Pat yourself on the back and let your cat do his snuggling of you-since you've just done the one thing, both, he and you know he can't do for himself-cleaned your cat's ears.
