Dogs' ears, though often cute and floppy, are prone to infection. Just like humans, they have yeast and bacteria that lives year-round on their skin. The trouble is, when that yeast or bacteria gets ...

Dog ears are made up of 18 muscles (vs. the human ear with six) and have considerably longer ear canals, which help them hone their sense of hearing. While this means dogs are vastly better at ...

Q: "My French Bulldog is about 2 years old and constantly keeps getting these bacterial infections in her ear. I'm afraid that, over time, her ear canal is going to get closed shut, as it's already ...

Q: Our 4-year-old dog has had constant ear infections since the time she was about a year of age. We have treated her ears with all kinds of different ear medications and cleaners, only to have her ...

Dogs are individuals, and there is no way to prevent all of their problems all of the time. If you want to stop most of their ear problems most of the time, you can use the simple cleaning and ...

Ear infections are very common in dogs, especially those with allergic skin disease. Most ear infections are treated topically, meaning medication is placed directly in the ear, but this comes with ...

Q: We are not having any luck getting rid of Eddie’s ear infection. He is a 9-year-old Labrador retriever that has never had a problem with his ears. One month ago our veterinarian even sedated him ...

Cephalexin (Keflex, Rilexine) is a medicine used to treat dogs and cats for skin infections caused by certain bacteria, especially staph infections. It’s also used extra-label or off-label to treat ...