Originally posted by vanbng
I have a 4 year old Akita-Chow mix dog and his ears get full of this brown gunk. He is mostly an indoor dog. I try to clean them as best as I can when I can catch him off guard, I know this sounds mean. He picks at his ears, and quietly whimpers. He has seen a vet and at the last visit bit him and was foaming at the mouth so that's really not the route I want to take. The vet didn't treat him very well and this has angered my poor dog. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Do you think your dog's ears might have hurt so bad that the
Vet's touching them hurt & scared the dog? How did the vet
"not treat him well" ? My vet gave me Zymox solution(drops)
for Smokey's ears when they seemed to bother him once last
summer. It's very good stuff.