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My cat keeps scratching at her ears and rubbing them off things?

  • 23-09-2013 09:13PM
    #1
    jazz101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 361 ✭✭


    My cat has been scratching at her ears for a few months now, and whenever she sits on my lap she tries to rub them against my hands. She also regularly shakes her head quite violently and a clear liquid comes out in tiny amounts when she does so.

    Is this ear mites, or what else could it be? Anyone else had this issue?


Comments

  • #2
    boomerang
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,189 ✭✭✭boomerang


    Earmites immediately spring to mind?

    Has she had an Advocate or Stronghold spot-on lately?


  • #3
    SingItOut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,009 ✭✭✭SingItOut


    With mites you can usually see the little black dots deep in the ear canal and if its a bad infestation their bigger clumps. She may also have a respiratory infection, is their any fluid coming from her nose or eyes? Does her breathing sound like a rattle? Either way get her to the vet ASAP as its probably very uncomfortable for her


  • #4
    jazz101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 361 ✭✭jazz101


    boomerang wrote: »
    Earmites immediately spring to mind?

    Has she had an Advocate or Stronghold spot-on lately?

    I dunno what that means, but I only suggested earmites because it was the first suggestion Yahoo Answers made for her behaviour.
    SingItOut wrote: »
    With mites you can usually see the little black dots deep in the ear canal and if its a bad infestation their bigger clumps. She may also have a respiratory infection, is their any fluid coming from her nose or eyes? Does her breathing sound like a rattle? Either way get her to the vet ASAP as its probably very uncomfortable for her

    I suppose you're right. I was always going to take her to the vet unless her behaviour was blatantly the symptom of something very common and easily treatable.


  • #5
    freesia1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72 ✭✭freesia1


    It sounds more like an ear infection to me if there is liquid coming out . You are better off taking her/him to the vets and getting something to clear it up properly.


  • #6
    boomerang
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,189 ✭✭✭boomerang


    Ear infections are mega-painful, OP. And if it's earmites, the treatments are prescription-only so you'd have to see the vet anyways. Vet visit deffo on the cards. ;)


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