Hi,
I've had a very odd thing happen with Cody, for the third
time in little over a month. He'll be sleeping and will wake
with his ear and all the fur surrounding it completely wet in
a sticky/oily substance. Each ear has done this. We know he
didn't lay in anything, as he has been in the house each
time. He isn't showing any other symptoms. The vet checked
him after the second leak and all was fine with the ear. She
left microscope slides for me to take a sample if it ever
happened again. Well, it did this morning. I cut off some of
the fur around the ear and you can wring out the fluid. Has
anyone had anything like this happen? The amount of fluid
that leaks has to be substantial to give the amount of wetness
on his fur.
It is not saliva from his mouth, or anything from his eye -
otherwise there would be a "trail". I'm taking the sample
into the vet tomorrow and hope she can determine what it is.
We've never experienced anything like this with any of my
previous dogs.
Christine