To Jim and Kathy: > He did not instruct me to clean out the ear first, just that I should use >three drops in each ear, twice a day for 3 weeks. Did I just waste all those doses because he failed to tell me to clean the ear first? He just >said to apply the drops and massage themn in. Am I doing it wrong? Umm, yes. Mites live in and under the waxy layer. Without first removing the wax - how do you expect the medicine to get to the mites. Plus - even if you do kill them, how would you like to walk around with a mass of wax, eggs, and dead insects in your ears.....yeeeech! Bruce Williams, DVM, DACVP Dept. of Vet Path, AFIP [log in to unmask] OR Chief Pathologist, AccuPath [log in to unmask] [Posted in FML issue 1295]