Seeking Info on Ear Hematomas After searching the net and finding very little info on this topic, I'm curious if any of you out there can share your experiences with me. I recently got two 8 week old brothers directly from a breeder. At 12 weeks of age, I noticed one of them had severly swollen earflaps (not little blood blisters but the entire earflap swollen, almost shut on one ear) and brought him to the vet. He was diagnosed with ear hematomas, and also earmites. It made sense to me that the earmites would be a contributing factor, but I had also noticed on three different occasions his brother sucking on his ears in the morning, and wonder if that weakened the ear structure and made him more susceptable to this condition. Anyways, we did surgery on the ears, took medication for the mites, seperated the siblings except for supervised playtime, and two weeks after surgery he had his stitches removed.... And now only three days later, to my heartbreak, the hematomas have redeveloped. My vet had warned me that this could happen. I'm not really open to doing further surgeries, but I'm curious about other solutions. Or will this correct itself in time? And in the meantime, do I continue to let them play together? I'd really appreciate any wisdom you all can share.... right now I feel like I'm the only one out there with a ferret that has this odd problem... I know that can't be the case! Thank you so much, Leigh and Taos the Ferret [log in to unmask] [Posted in FML issue 5040]