New favorite product: CleanEr

Cleaning a dog's ears, yeah, that's fun. Not. I mean, some of them actually like it, but others barely let you touch their ears. Drying them out with a cotton ball or something is out of the question: let the chase around the house begin.

I found a product at Deidre's K9 Naturals that makes the dreaded cleaning at least a little easier. CleanER comes in a convenient dripping bottle, and if you can just catch the pooch long enough to hold the bottle over the ear and get some in there, the process is simplified.

This is how it's supposed to happen according to the instructions:
"Apply liberally into the ear canal. Massage the base of the ear. Allow pet to shake head. Clean excess with a cotton ball."

In reality, it turned more into me dripping in CleanEr, the dog rubbing his head against the carpet, and me trying to clean whatever ran down his face with a towel, but that's more due to an uncooperative dog and my own clumsiness than any fault of the product.

It's cheap too. A small bottle costs around four dollars, and they have plenty of opportunities to get free shipping.