Ear Cleaning

alschwahn · Aug 16, 2017

JulieT said: ↑

I think that the reason dogs hate the ear cleaning bottle is because of the noise it makes in their ears when you release the pressure - it's a loudish sucking noise.

So, the first thing is to decant the bottle into a needleless syringe. Then, the best way to train this is a version of the 'the bucket game'. This is explained here:

https://www.facebook.com/thebucketgame/?fref=ts

The start of the bucket game and the dreaded ear cleaning bottle (I swapped to a syringe later

towel game by julieandcharlie julieandcharlie, on Flickr

In the meantime, while you are training and you still have to clean ears, do it in a different place, in a different way, and just use as much food as possible to distract him. Try to keep needing to do his ears 'old style' very separate from your new training.
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Thank you thank you for this! I will try this. And your dog is absolutely GORGEOUS! He is what I picture when I think of the "perfect lab"

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