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Input: Text: this happened in december.

my dog is an english springer spaniel. he gets frequent ear infections because of his long floppy hairy ears. in 2016 or so i went to tractor supply co. i bought "ear wash for dogs and cats." i started using it every week, following the directions on the back carefully. lift ear in air like a doberman, pour in generous amount, massage base of ear, wipe out excess and allow dog to shake head.

dog starts getting scared every time i pull the bottle out. he whimpers when i pour the solution in. he hides under the bed. after cleaning his ears, he shakes his head and scratches obsessively. i figure, huh, he must not like having moisture in his ears. must feel weird. this goes on for months. whenever his ears are dirty, i clean them, which is usually every two weeks.

in december, he got a pretty bad ear infection and i started cleaning his ears more frequently, but it doesn't seem to help. he gets to the point where he's constantly scratching his ears and started walking around with his head tipped sideways. i took him in to the vet. she swabs a sample, says he has a +2 yeast infection and gives me surolan for it. then, she notices that the tip of his long dangly ear is soaking wet. he's been sucking on the bottom of his ear, like a toddler sucking their thumb. gives me an oral antibiotic because the skin where he was sucking was turning white.

i ask about cleaning his ears to prevent infection in the future, explain what i've been doing and how much he doesn't like it. she says the procedure is right, asks to see the bottle.

she points out: ingredient #2 in the ear wash: tea tree oil. 

and that's how i learned that tea tree oil is both toxic to pets and, in high concentrations for dogs or humans, causes an intense burning sensation on tender tissues... like the inside of your ear. he sucked on the bottom of his ear because the pain from the "ear wash" was so intense and there was nothing he could do about it.

mind you, this wasn't something i mixed up myself. i bought it on the shelf of the animal supply store. it was marked for use in cats and dogs. it had a picture of my dog's breed on the bottle.

so, i throw the tsc bottle out and do what my vet says. he loves the surolan, he was wary about his ears the first few times but accepts it without complaint from day three onward. i hide the oral antibiotic in peanut butter and give it to him twice daily. 

two days pass without him shaking his head, scratching, or sucking on his ear, and the patch he had sucked on ( about the size of a credit card) gets all dry and hard and the hair falls off. three more days go by, and i go to check the bottom of his ear while putting in his surolan, and it's gone. there's a ragged edge where the ear stops. 

the vet says that she had never seen anything like it except in dogs with frostbite. he literally sucked all the circulation out of his ear and killed that patch of flesh, and it was ripped off, it fell off, or he ate it.

i can't believe it hurt so much and he still let me hold him and put the crap in his ears. he never growled at me or anything, he just gave in. if i were a dog, i would have bitten me a long time ago.

TIFU and my dog lost half an ear