okay guys thanks for tuning in once again to grooming about Rudy we just have an opportunity to show you a little bit of a you know overgrown hair in the ear you know with this with this kind of stuff happening with dogs is a standard poodle so they're very notorious for having a lot of ear infections and things like that you can you can kind of tell an ear infection this doesn't seem to be too infected to me it just looks very very dirty so you can you can smell it if you if you smell the ear canal and it smells really funky then you know that there might be an ear infection going but also you'll see a lot of yellowing and gooey yellow stuff coming out of the ear but this is just more it looks more dirty so what we're gonna do because this is a shave down what we're gonna do to help him with his ears is we're going to actually shave the entire ear so I'm gonna kind of just do all this and and shave down the ear so that the ear is gonna be able to breathe a little bit better again with all this hair on these standard poodles you'll get a lot of moisture just building up and caking up underneath there so we're just gonna kind of get rid of all of this now we can get like a better view of what's going on in here so just take the comb and show you how much hair is in that canal you see now before we even start to pluck anything we're going to kind of just rip all this out I'm using a 10 blade on this kind of remove all of that so you could see better what's going on kind of he's known as I'm pushing the back of the ear just to kind of make it more flush okay now whenever you're doing here you want to be careful with that little that little flap of skin there little earlobe try not to catch that kocha from the back yeah so have to battle with it is just kind of clearing it all out so that you can see what's going on so now we could see a little bit better with what's going on so now we could work on getting some of that that gunky stuff in the ear canal out so I'm not using the ear powder yet and kind of just grabbing some stuff right here now everybody has a different opinion on pulling the hair out of the ears if there is an infection I would opt to you know not pull so much hair out of the ear only because you know if you pull the hair out of the ear what I'm doing here is I'm putting ear powder in just to grip the hair a little bit but if you pull the hit too much hair out of the ear and there's already an infection you may even contribute to the infection but my take is you know pull some out but you know leave some in some of that inner ear canal stuff you can seal how cookie it is there want to try to get some of that out because it's just caked up in there so I really want to try to get some of it out without hurting him of course you know so I I don't believe in you know doing the forceps thing where you're grabbing a big wad of hair and just yanking it out I would prefer that people just do it the way I'm doing it little by little you know this way you're not hurting the dog so I'm just gonna work on that a little bit more put a little more ear powder in you don't want to you don't want to squirt the ear powder too deep into the canal case and it's very very hard to get out you kind of want to just keep it on the surface and just I'm just using my index finger and my thumb to kind of pull out small pieces you know I don't want to grab a big wad of hair cuz it that tends to hurt them good boy buddy oh you're such a good dog it's okay papa and you can see all this [ __ ] coming out you see that big big black you see all that that's what you want to get out um this is what's gonna trap a lot of a lot of dirt a lot of and this is what's going to cause an ear infection is that big all that waxy buildup in there once you get that out you know you kind of want to leave some of the surface hair in in there to act as a barrier that's why I try to not yank all of the hair out okay okay so oh okay buddy he just wanted to get that you see like see this little I don't know if you can see that or not but see there's a little bit right here kind of want to leave that there I like to leave that only because it does create a little bit of a barrier and that's not the hair that's really holding down all that wax but we're gonna do is we're gonna go in with forceps I try to warm my forceps up a little bit make sure you spray them and keep them disinfected but I almost tuck them under tuck them under my arm a little and just warm them a little get a little bit more ear powder they're not much and I'm just gonna open up that canal there and just grab that inner stuff that's right down in here there you go and again we're not we're not yanking it we're we're just kind of slowly pulling out and you really want to open up the canal and just kind of and you want to be careful not to grab the skin with the forceps that would just kind of grabbing little bits of hair and then come over here kind of scoop this alright so we got most of our hair out there again this surface stuff I like to leave I feel that it creates a little bit of a barrier catches some stuff and again that's not the hair that's causing the infection it's that inner canal stuff that's causing it I don't really smell any infection they just are very very dirty so once you've done that now you can go ahead and get your cotton ball it's okay puff up and we're going to start to clean that out wrapping up a cotton ball and putting it on my forceps like that getting we're using a pro ear cleaner kind of want to squeegee the squeegee it out a little bit shake it out so you're not dumping too much in and just kind of start up here don't go directly down into the to the ear canal yet because they will start to shake so I like to get all the surface stuff out first pull that away and then we're going to change our cotton ball and do it even a little bit more so we'll get all of this all the stuff that's in this crevice here we're just loosen it all up and then we're gonna change our cotton ball again we're we don't you don't want it to be too big either you want to pull your cotton balls apart and just kind of fold them all over and make a nice little cushion for them so that you know you know you're not poking them and then with the with the ear cleaner I'm just kind of putting a little bit on and now I'm gonna go a little deeper in the ear canal so I'm going to open this ear canal a little bit and just kind of I don't want to I want to try not to push thing push anything down into the ear canal so I'm kind of scooping out you know I want to scoop this all that [ __ ] out of the ear so we're doing we're kind of placing and pulling outward and don't go too deep you should really kind of measure because that you can feel the ear canal from the back of the head don't ever think that you should be going down in here you're not you're not going deep you don't want to puncture their eardrum or anything like that you just kind of want to grab what you can and pull it forward and out so once you've done all of that now we will get them in the tub and we'll wash out this ear flap and we'll clean it up the best we can but is he we've loosened everything up you can see how much better the year canal already looks no infection no infection just very dirty but again to avoid infection we want to do that and clear that out and again see these little hairs right here I like to leave those because it does they do capture any dirt and debris dogs running around and stuff like that it'll keep a lot of dirt out so we're going to go ahead and get them in the tub and clean this up a little bit more and have them shake some of that stuff out and then we'll go over it again and we'll show you how much cleaner it is okay guys so that's it we we cleaned it out best we could in the tub got all that excess dirt off the ear flap you know went back in and cleaned out any excess in this in his little ear crevices there so and we kind of left a little bit of hair in there but we got most of that hair that was in the canal there so you could see how much cleaner it is the ears gonna breathe a lot better now all that hairs off of it so he's definitely going to feel a lot better with all that hair out of it so yeah guys you should be checking your dog's ears I would say at least once a week if you have a breed like this a standard poodle or Bijan or a wheat and Terrier a dog that requires hair that the pulling of the hair then you really want to check them more often and you know depending on the breed the bent depending on the individual dog the dog's life style if you have a dog that swims a lot if you have a dog that is out in the field or working on a farm you really want to check those dogs even a little bit more often because they can get they're prone to ear infections and and getting a lot of dirt in their ear but I definitely want to stay on top of this you want to avoid any ear infections but again if there is an ear infection if it depends on how severe it is you might want to you know call it that like I said sometimes if there is a severe infection depending on how bad the infection is if you go and pluck that hair out it may contribute to the infection and and cause an even bigger problem so you definitely want to you know really find out how how bad it is and again it varies groomers like myself we see this a lot so we tend to see whether or not you know they're infected and or how how infected they are again sometimes I'll come across something that might be very very infected and I'll have the client go to the vet and and clear up the infection first before I start doing any pulling of the hair or anything like that but guys we just wanted to show you this on behalf of me and Anthony thank you so much once again for tuning in to the broom by Rudy channel don't forget to Like share and subscribe guys like us on facebook follow us on Twitter and Instagram don't forget to check out our 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