{"id":49,"date":"2026-10-01T13:36:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T13:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-anicare\/why-the-vet-looks-in-your-dogs-ears-at-every-check\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T23:49:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T23:49:44","slug":"why-the-vet-looks-in-your-dogs-ears-at-every-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-anicare\/why-the-vet-looks-in-your-dogs-ears-at-every-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the vet looks in your dog&#8217;s ears at every check"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ear checks take a few seconds and are part of every health check at the clinic (sample note).<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vet looks for redness, wax, grass seeds and anything that might make the ear sore. Dogs with long, floppy ears or that swim a lot are checked a little more closely.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Between visits, watch for head shaking, scratching at one ear or a smell. Book an appointment if you see them; your vet will advise on cleaning.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick look with the otoscope, and what the vet is checking for (sample).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-checks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-anicare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-anicare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-anicare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-anicare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-anicare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-anicare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-anicare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-anicare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-anicare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-anicare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-anicare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}