Clean Your Dog’s Ears With DIY Cotton Ear Swab

Although one cotton swab costs less than $0.002, it is nevertheless dangerous to use it to clean your dog’s ears. You may have complete faith in your control of the cotton swab when you clean your dog’s ears, but you can never be absolute certain that the cotton will not come off the plastic rod and get stuck inside the ear canal. If you are lucky, you might be able to get it out without much trauma otherwise you’ll need to seek veterinary assistance.

Furthermore, some cheap cotton swab have very little cotton wrapped around the rod and when it comes in contact with liquid, you can particularly see the rod underneath it. Imagine how your dog feel with you’re “scraping” his ear instead of wiping it? No wonder some dogs hate having their ears cleaned!

If you have been using cotton wool to clean your dog’s ears, you know you getting half the job done. No matter how dainty your finger is, you can’t clean those hard to reach areas. It’s never a thorough cleaning when your dog has excess earwax buildup. Before showing you how to get your dog’s ears sparkling clean, hairless, and odorless, let me show you how you can make your own cotton ear swab with just a pair of hair pulling tweezers (either a pair of straight or curved hair pullers shown on the right) and some cotton wool.

How To Make Your Own Cotton Ear Swab

Method:

1. Grab the cotton wool in the middle with the tweezers.
2. Press the cotton wool firmly around the tweezers.
3. Twirl the tweezers while holding the cotton wool firmly around the tweezers. The cotton wool should wind around the tip of the tweezers as you are doing it.
4. Eventually the cotton wool is wound tighter around the tweezers tip as you twirl the tweezers.
5. A tightly wound cotton wool around the tweezers tip. You can now use this similar to a cotton bud minus the trauma.

To test if your DIY cotton swab has sufficient cotton wool wrapped around it, dip it in water for a second. If you can see the tweezer through the cotton wool, that’s too little. Be generous with the cotton wool but you don’t want a DIY cotton swab that it’s too bulky to reach the outer ear canal.

It takes a couple of practices, and very soon you’ll become proficient at it just like I am or any professional groomer is.