I took Scooby up to the local reservoir on Thursday with my friend and her two cockers and Scooby just had a great time, although he insists on swimming in horrid, green stagnant water each time we go
Anyway, he'd just finished swimming in the reservoir (the clean bit) when he came out crying and holding his head to the side and I just knew he had something stuck in his ear. I brought him home and had a look and could see the tip of some grass (the very fine yellow type with seeds on the end). I immediately rang the vet and they couldn't fit us in until 4.00pm (this was at 11.00am)
I hung up, looked in his ear again and the grass had disappeared, obviously further down the ear canal.
Anyway, poor Scoobs spent the next 5 hours feeling sorry for himself and would only come out of his bed for a cuddle on my knee - I felt so helpless
Anyway, when the vet eventually examined him, she removed this horrendously large piece of grass - it wasn't particularly long but had about 5 grasses sticking out of the main stem, no wonder he was in agony
The vet also said that the inside of his ear was really inflamed, so he's on antibiotic drops twice a day in his ear.
I'm just annoyed with myself for not just driving him down there - I bet they would have removed it straight away if I had just turned up with him in pain, never mind, you live and learn