Give him a treat for putting up with it and also give his ears a massage as you do it or once you have finished. This is only to be used on dogs that do need their ears plucked and have obvious hair growth in their ear canal.

If your dog does not have a lot of inner ear fluff you might like to trim back what there is with a pair of straight edged scissors. To remove unwanted hair from the ear canal, puff Ear-Fresh into the ear and remove hair with forceps or tweezers.This powder is used to make the hair easier to grip when trimming or plucking around your pets ears. This should be nothing to worry about, it just feels different after having the ear hair plucking done. As with anything else, there are pros and cons to ear hair plucking and whether to have it done or not depends on a few different factors. Registered Office address: Hyperdrug Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Station Industrial Estate, Barnard Castle, DL12 0NG.

Foreign bodies, particularly grass seeds, can easily get caught up in the dog’s fur and if they get caught up in the ear hair without you noticing, they can travel down the ear canal and cause a major ear infection which could end up requiring an expensive operation. For dogs with no history of ear infections and if their ear canals appear normal, I would avoid ear plucking and just be sure to keep the ear hair that extends outside the canal trimmed neatly and routinely clean their ears with a gentle ear cleaner that also has a drying agent.It is generally the small fluffy dogs or small designer cross breed dogs that have ear hair and is not generally found in larger breed dogs. There are a lot of different products out there to help with ear plucking, but here at The Paw Pad Dog Grooming School, we love to use Thornit’s plucking powder.