I'm behind on the digest (again), but for those concerned about this point...I regularly took Scheherazade (may she rest in peace) into the shower for her baths. We would both get clean, and she got to run around in the bottom of the tub i\until it drained (this was a favorite activity). I was always careful to dry her ears with cotton swabs after every adventure, and never encountered a problem. I haven't run across any problems in the vet literature either, as long as the ears are dried thoroughly. -Dr. Karen [log in to unmask] "The doctor is in." [Posted in FML issue 1414]