Spaniels are the most popular hunting dog today. This friendly creature is ready to walk many kilometers next to its owner through forests and swamps, will help to drive the duck out of the shelter and pull the shot prey out of the lake. At the same time, the spaniel has good health, which is very important if you are an avid hunter.
However, spaniel ears need constant care and attention. If you decide to choose this breed, then prepare cotton swabs and tune in for a daily inspection. Charming ears are a kind of visiting card of this breed, but they create additional difficulties in care.
Prevention is the best treatment
Spaniel ears primarily need ventilation. The hanging position promotes the accumulation of sulfur and the development of a variety of infections. An additional factor is the overgrowth of the ear from the inside with hair. Thus, ideal conditions are provided for the development of pathogenic infections.
Natural ventilation
There is another preventative measure available. The ears of the spaniel can be lifted over the head with a soft clip or hair tie. This is especially true during meals. If you do not do this, after the meal you will have to wash the outer and inner surfaces of the ear, while there is a high probability that water will get into the auricle. This often leads to inflammation. 
On a walk
Representatives of this breed love to walk very much. Active games and exercises in the fresh air strengthen the immune system, normalize the work of all organs and systems. Spaniel ears get very dirty when walking. The dog runs, pressing its curious nose to the ground, and long "canvases" dangle along the ground, collecting dust and microbes.
Coming home, any owner will try to clean his pet. A moistened but not completely washed ear makes an ideal incubator for bacteria. Therefore, before going outside, take care to fix your ears high on your head. To do this, you can come up with a headband made of soft elastic. The simplest option would be a piece of nylon stocking. It's fast, cheap and great for keeping your ears clean.
Regular inspection
We have already mentioned that it is necessary to regularly examine the entire ear cavity. Before that, prepare cotton swabs and discs, warm water. Lay your pet on its side and cuddle so that he lies calmly during the procedure. Now turn your ear completely inside out and inspect carefully.
Structural features
The spaniel's long, snug ears protect the ear canal from dirt, dust, and foreign objects. But this structure contributes to the excessive accumulation of sulfur, which often leads to the development of inflammation. Long hair closes the air, retains moisture.
The spaniel gets a lot of dirt on its ears while eating, walking or hunting. The dog runs, dropping its nose low to the ground, looking for smells. To prevent the tips of the ears from dragging, collecting dirt, bacteria and germs, it is better to fix them above your head. To do this, you can use a hair tie, a soft clip, or a piece of nylon stockings.
Active play with the dog can also help you ventilate. Then the ears, like flags, will themselves flutter high above the dog's head.
Cleaning procedure
When returning home from a walk, you need to inspect your pet. Lay it on its side, caress it so that the dog lies calmly, then turn each ear inside out one by one. If the skin inside is pink, warm, clean, the examination can be considered complete. To clean the soiled ends, wipe them with a soft damp cloth, then comb them.
You need to clean your spaniel's ears as follows:
- the long hair around the ear canal is trimmed. The passage itself is closed with a cotton swab for the duration of the haircut so that the hairs do not get inside;
- excess brown sulfur is removed with a cotton swab or a damp cotton pad. For large dogs, it is more convenient to remove sulfur with a piece of gauze or bandage wrapped around a finger. For stubborn dirt, you can use a few drops of warm sunflower oil or dog ear lotion. A few drops of the product must be dripped into the ear opening, after 2-3 minutes wipe dry with a dry napkin;
- after cleaning, veterinarians recommend using a special powder that disinfects and dries the ear canal.
If during the examination you notice a tick, you need to carefully remove it with tweezers, unhooking it from the skin with rotational movements. The bite site is then treated with a disinfectant. Remember that a tick bite can be contagious, to rule out complications, take your pet to your veterinarian.
Use separate cotton swabs, discs, tissues, or swabs for each ear. After processing one auricle, it is necessary to change the water or solution with which it was cleaned. This will prevent transmission of the infection.
If your dog shakes and shakes his head, especially after a night's sleep, put some cleaning lotion into the ear canal. Massage gently at the base of your ear. After that, with the help of cotton balls, remove the wax that has risen from the inside and the remaining liquid. The villi of the wool themselves will raise the sulfur up, the main thing is to remove the excess from the shell itself.
Care products
You can find products to care for your pets' unusual ears at pet stores. The most common and effective:
- A cleansing liquid that softens the skin and removes sulfuric secretions. It contains water, propylene glycol, salicylic, benzoic acids. The drug prevents the growth of bacteria, eliminates unpleasant odors. Liquids are used 1-2 times a week, 2-3 times a day during care.
- An excellent care product is bactericidal powder. This powder is used to remove excess moisture and irritation. It contains an antiseptic iodoform, boric acid, as well as additives that help to painlessly remove hair from the ear canal.
- Hygienic lotions for dissolving sulfur, facilitating its removal from the ear canal.
- Hygienic wet dog wipes, bandage or gauze, hydrogen peroxide, chlorhexidine, cotton swabs and discs.
Common diseases
Due to the peculiarities of the structure of the ears of the cocker spaniel, high humidity remains under them, which leads to the accumulation of bacteria, the development of fungus and other infectious diseases.
The owner should be alerted to the following symptoms:
- the animal is worried during the cleaning procedure, combs one or both ears, rubs them with its paws;
- unpleasant odor from the ear canal;
- head tilt to one side;
- yellow, mahogany, or brown discharge from the ears;
- rash, redness;
- pain on palpation;
- hearing impairment.
These or similar symptoms should be of concern to the owner. If you do not seek veterinary help in time and do not start treatment, this can lead to complications, including complete hearing loss.
Otitis
Middle ear inflammation, or otitis media, is a condition that spaniels are more common in dogs of other breeds. The reason may be a bite of a blood-sucking insect, cold water entering the ear canal, allergy or fungus. Treatment consists in treating the inside with a 2% salicylic alcohol solution or a 3% alcoholic boric acid solution. For puppies, use a more gentle saline solution.
For complex treatment, antibiotics or antiseptics are used.
If otitis media is of an allergic nature, first of all, the allergen is excluded and antihistamines are prescribed.
Sometimes, against the background of otitis media, other diseases develop: tonsillitis, conjunctivitis, rhinitis, fever appears, the animal loses activity and appetite. In this case, the treatment is enhanced with hormonal agents and novocaine blockades.
Ear mite (otodectosis)
Due to weakened immunity, otodectosis is often accompanied by a complication - a secondary bacterial or fungal infection. In this case, the dog must be prescribed antibiotics and anti-fungal agents. With severe itching that accompanies this disease, hormonal drugs are prescribed.
Foreign body
During inspection, the owner can find seeds or spines of herbs, small insects in the pet's ear. They must be removed with long tweezers. If your dog is in pain, see your veterinarian who will use short-term anesthesia during the procedure.
Trauma
Spaniels are active dogs, born hunters and are often ear injuries. It is important to treat even small wounds on time, otherwise the animal is threatened with inflammation. After injury, a hematoma can occur between cartilage and skin (on the outer surface) or between cartilage and perichondrium (on the inner surface). The auricle swells, thickens, the ear loses its elasticity.
Before opening the hematoma, a tight bandage is applied to the animal's head for 5-6 days. After the operation, for another 10-12 days, the spaniel will have to apply healing ointment and bandage the head, wrapping the sore ear around the head.
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Nadia Mikhalkova has always been distinguished by a careless attitude to her appearance.
Does not follow the face:
In this photo, Nadezhda is 27 years old.
Behind the figure - too:
Dresses as needed:
Often - into things that don't go:
If anyone ever wears jeans-cigarettes, it is Gisele Bundhun:
But not wide-hipped Nadia, who loves them dearly:
Mikhalkova Jr.'s hairstyle, as a rule, is unassuming, there is no makeup:
And you know what? I have always understood this Nadia. I understood why she looked like this and not otherwise.
Nadya was born in a golden cradle, from childhood she had everything: not only money, but also a well-known name and fame.
Doesn't want to swing your ass and follow your face? And it’s not necessary: Mikhalkov’s surname allows you to get any role without the need to beat the thresholds of auditions. Will the husband give up because he doesn't want to crawl on the jellyfish-like body? And let it be: Nadya and her children are provided up to the very eyebrows for several lives to come. If the little one bangs, then not counting the penny.
When from the cradle you have what many people strive for throughout their lives and rarely any of them gets what they want, it discourages, but does not deserve condemnation.
I understand Nadia's careless, non-claiming sex symbol. Wrapped up to your neck in grandma's rags? Did you pull the dirty hairs on the back of your head with an elastic band? Got a heel of a kilo over the summer? Oh, okay. This will not affect her career, fame and material well-being in any way. And this will not take away the name of Mikhalkov from a good daddy's daughter.
But when a good daddy's daughter suddenly steps on the slippery ice of sex appeal, it looks inappropriate and pitiful.
At the Golden Eagle award ceremony, the habitually asexual Nadia suddenly appeared in a dress with a neckline to the navel, in which her chest dangled freely:
What was it? Complete acceptance of your own appearance in the best traditions of the Body Positive movement?
This movement teaches not only to love, but also to emphasize in every possible way those features of their appearance that do not correspond to generally accepted standards of beauty.
Excess weight:
Hair on the female body:
Body positivists offer to eat when you want and how much you want:
Bite your nails if you like:
Get your hair cut as you like:
Do not be ashamed of traces of menstrual blood on your clothes, giving up tampons and pads, because monthly bleeding is so natural:
Saggy breasts, lumps of cellulite, pubic hair stuck together from menstrual blood, belly in postnatal stretch marks - these and other "treasures" body-positivists urge to love in themselves and bring them out into the world: it is not worthwhile to admire such "values" alone.
So Nadya Mikhalkova, apparently, decided that there is her own charm in her chest, that you should not put such beauty in a bra and hide it under clothes.
And I'll say: it's worth it. Do not listen, Nadya, and act in the old fashioned way: emphasize the advantages and hide the disadvantages.
Feces smells bad and looks ugly, so people empty their bowels alone, despite the fact that the acts of defecation are more than natural. Boobs hung - hide them in a bra. If your hair is greasy, wash it. They say that it is natural, it is not ugly, but these are just empty words. In fact, many natural things are often ugly and unpleasant.
Do you think you need to hide your shortcomings, or is it better to live ignoring their existence? A sluggish boob jumped out of the dress - and figs with her: what is natural, it is not ugly. Which position is closer to you? Why?
Girls! Today I was again drawn a little to the wrong steppe, now you will understand that. The fact is that I will not write about how to lose weight, or what diets for weight loss are better to use, and not even about roller skating(although, this is great). I want to talk to you about complexes.
Yes, just talk. I really hope that in the comments (or in a personal) we will discuss some problems that bother women and do not allow them to live in peace, without complexes and constraints. I'm talking about the female breast.
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I will not describe for a long time why I decided to write about it, I will only say that my best friend for some reason decided that her husband was looking at the "busty" ladies, and her size zero needs urgent surgery to increase... (I have a quiet shock).
So I thought, how many more people like her? My breasts also do not differ in large volume, but it never entered my head to do something with it. On the contrary, I found my pluses.
Pros of small breasts
In fact, if you think carefully, you can find a lot of advantages of small breasts, but I think if you even read these and think about them, you will understand that I am right!
- - Small breasts are very comfortable! Well, firstly, when walking, nothing bothers me, does not shake too much and while jumping rope that I do on a daily basis. In the summer, I do not have all kinds of "troubles" under the breast and around, which often haunt the owners of the 5th size, do you agree?
- - Woman with small breasts looks younger, is not it? This is especially true after 30 years, when, thanks only to these natural data, you look young and beautiful, about a little older than a teenager. But you just have to try a little: if you do not have a cool figure and a thin waist - urgently go to the gym and go on a diet (by blood type, for example).
- - I asked my husband about the breast, and he answered me: “ When I see big breasts, it's a mother-nurse, and that's it.... Why would I marry you then? When you are young, everyone has blood in their temples, when you see a horror-sized size, and then the brains fall into place. " O!!!
- - And I also climbed to study the questionnaires and found out that small breasts react faster to caress and touch than big, well, what else do you need?
- - Finally, Who was it for then the push-up?? Go out into the world, put on a bra, everything was lifted and raised literally before our eyes. Here. Can you hide your big breasts somewhere? That's what I'm talking about.
Not convinced? And you look at the breasts of Mila Jovovich, Natalie Portman, Keira Knightley and others, did that stop them?
Spaniel ears
Well, forgive me for such an unflattering comparison, it is not always and not always possible to reach out to everyone in another way. I agree that if the breasts are sagging, there is little pleasant, but ... this is also not a reason for complexes and urgent radical measures to eliminate this "disadvantage".
By the way, most often the breasts sag in those who have something to sag, i.e. for owners of large sizes. But it happens that small breasts are subject to deformation.
So, if this has already happened, the main thing is not to panic. Grab your feet and go to the gym or start exercising at home, working on improving the shape of your breasts and even increasing it, if you so desire.
The main rule against sagging is regular sports.
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We will warn and neutralize
Here's another Here are some tips to help you maintain your breasts beauty and firmness:
- - Maintain correct posture, blood circulation will not be disturbed and then the breast will always be beautiful, without wrinkles and folds
- - Do not try to lose weight dramatically! All these strict diets, which I do not like so much, lead to a sharp drop in weight, and this will be reflected primarily on the chest - it will sag
- - You can't gain weight quickly either.- you will earn stretch marks. Only slowly and gradually
- - Find the right bra... He should support the chest well, not press, but also not be free.
- - Do you like topless sunbathing? Get ready for wrinkles, age spots and rapid skin aging. The sun's rays destroy collagen, dry out the skin
- - Don't go without a bra... Maybe this is fashionable now, but then you will sit and cry that your breasts have sagged, but you don’t need this?
- - Apply nourishing breast masks and various procedures to help keep it in good shape (rubbing with an ice cup, a short compress from berry juice or herbal decoction, etc.)
It is possible to do an easy massage, and it is even better if your husband does it, and as often as possible. So you will forget about your complexes, and your chest will always be in shape!
