How to Clean a Dog's Ears - expert dog grooming demonstration

This is Barney, a one year old Miniature Poodle.

He's about to have his ears cleaned in the hands of a real expert.

Jitka Krizova is one of Europe's top dog groomers.

Sasha is enjoying herself.

Originally from Slovakia, she now lives andworks in Britain.

She's been showing and grooming dogs for 20 years and has won an impressivearray of awards.

British Groomer of the Year Award 2006, Eurogroom winner three times ina row and in 2011 she clipped and snipped her way to the World Championships as a memberof Groom Team England.

Jitka's sharing her champion tips and techniques to help you keepyour dog in pristine condition.

For many dogs a mild swabbing with ear cleanseris enough to keep their ears healthy.

But for curly wavy coated breeds like Poodles,Bichons, Schnauzers, Shih-tzus and Lhasa apsos - it's not so straight forward.

It's importantto keep your dogs ears very clean and tidy.

Dogs' ears should be odour free, hair freeand dirt free.

Some of the breeds, like Barney here, have long hair growing from inside theear canal.

These hairs have to be plucked out and then we will clean the ear with cottonwool and ear cleanser.

We put a little bit of ear powder in the dog'sears.

Grab a little bit of hair between your thumb and finger and pull.

We're using ear powder to make plucking ears easier.

It helps us to grab the hair and alsoit releases the hair a little bit.

If you don't pluck your dogs ears the wholeear canal can become blocked with hair.

This stops the air from circulating and can leadto infection.

Dogs with droopy ears are especially susceptible to fungus, waxy ears and ear mites.

People can do ear plucking in cleaning athome.

Sometimes it's not a very pleasant experience for a dog, especially the ear plucking, andprobably would be better if it is done by a professional dog groomer or vet nurse.

Whenwe start early age with ear plucking dogs can get used to it.

It doesn't have to bestressful.

Dogs like Barney with hairy, long ears maybe prone to picking up grass seeds in their ears.

Arrow shaped grass seeds tend to attachthemselves to the fur and then work their way down the ear canal coming to rest rightup against the delicate ear drum.

This is very painful and requires immediate veterinaryattention.

Next using cotton wool and ear cleanser Jitkagently removes any dirt and excess ear wax from Barney's ear.

When you're wiping the ear, don't go any furtherthan you can see.

Otherwise it could cause ear irritation.

Ear cleaning can be done everythree-four weeks, up to six weeks.

Now Barney's wars are nice and clean.

We shouldkeep an eye on the dog's ears and check them on a regular basis.

If your dog has an infection you will probablynotice him scratching or shaking his ears.

If you see any redness, scabs, unpleasantodour, don't try to clean the ears on your own, take your dog to the vet.

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