Blissfully Fresh™ Dog Ear Cleaner

Clean your dog's ears at least weekly, you'll be glad you started that habit.

• Gather everything you need (Simply Clean Ear Cleaner, cotton balls, treats)
• Only use cotton balls or cotton gauze squares*
• Squirt a bit of Simply Clean onto cotton ball
• Or squirt a bit directly into dog's ear & massage base of ear
• Wipe inside of ear out
• Repeat using fresh cotton ball
• If cotton ball is overly gritty or has an offensive odor consult your vet

PRO TIP:Never use swabs, aka q-tips, or go too deep when applying natural dog ear cleaner as are complex with lots of curves, moving parts and easily damaged components. 

Dog Ear Cleaner Ingredients: 

• Water
• Denatured Alcohol
• Coco Betaine
• Aloe Barbadensis (Aloe)
• Eucalyptus Globus Leaf (Distilled Eucalyptus)
• Cinnamomum Camphor (Distilled Camphor)
• Gaultheria Procumbens (Distilled Wintergreen Leaf Oil)

As you may well imagine, there are as many shapes of dog ears as there are dogs. In researching this bit, I was astounded by three things.

#1 - Have some of these people who named the shape of the ears ever seen a dog's ear?

#2 - There are only so many names to call dogs ears that hang down

#3 - The dogs don't care at all what shape we call their ears

Bat Ears - large, erect ears that sit high on the head - French Bulldog, Corgi

Button Ears- is in-between a Drop and Semi-Erect ear. The button comes from  Pugs, Parson Russell Terriers

Drop Ears - Good ears that hang down. Labs, Goldens, Dachshund

Erect Ears - Stand straight up and point forward. Sticky-Uppy ears is the professional terminology - German Shepherd, Siberian Husky, Alaskan Malamute

Folded Ears are Drop Ears taken to the extreme - Basset, Bloodhound scent dogs

Pricked or Semi-Erect- An ear that tips at the end and does not stand up straight like the prick or erect ear. Border Collie, Shetland Sheepdog

Rose Ears- are supposed to be an erect ear that forms the shape of the rose when it is folded. It folds backwards, so is not a button ear. Greyhound, Whippet, Bulldog Note: Sorry, I am not getting a ROSE vibe at all

Only One Breed
Butterfly - the Papillon
Candle Flame - English Toy Terrier
Filbert - Bedlington Terrier

As most of us do, I Googled around using "dog ear shape" and shape of dog ears names" and other equallly pithy phrases.

Yes, I even went old school and dug out my old dog encyclopedias and had a trip down memory lane.

I came to the following conclusions...

SEVERAL websites had the same typo in part of a description...hmmm. Several had names of dog ear shapes I had never heard of and I've been showing dogs and immersed in dogs for 35 years!

The books, which were several editions of AKC The Complete Dog Book and a few Dog Encyclopedias had no common phrases, except quotes from the breed standards. Plus, you get a feel for each authors style.

I'm not why this bothered me so, but it did. There is research and there is Copy and Pasting. Rant Over!!!

OK, the 5th grade level my sense of humor is stuck in snickered at all the phallic terms used to describe dog ears. Semi-Erect, Erect, Semi-Prick, Pricked...why those terms? Snickering Over!