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00:00 I found that there was a lot of human wax that was preventing the otitis from resolving.
00:04 The auditory conduct is no longer tingling.
00:06 Come on!
00:10 Come on!
00:11 Let's go!
00:12 Atticus is really affectionate.
00:16 He's a very strong connection with Jolie, who is 14 months old.
00:20 He's become more used to being watched when she's outside.
00:24 It's adorable.
00:26 She calls him "woof-woof".
00:28 I love her. Come on!
00:30 Oh my gosh!
00:31 Atticus has had a very effective otitis for the last two years or so.
00:37 He's the first time that I've had a dog that has issues like this.
00:43 We noticed that he seemed to be off balance, and he was often looking up and his head a lot,
00:49 shaking his head quite a bit.
00:51 So, as soon as we touch him, he starts to whine.
00:54 Not knowing why the otitis comes back non-stop, seeing him suffer, it makes me uncomfortable.
01:00 Hello, sir! Come on, Jolie!
01:04 Atticus is here for an autoscopy video of his right ear.
01:08 Hi, Atticus!
01:10 Hi, Atticus Adler!
01:11 He's so handsome!
01:12 Yes!
01:13 Let's lift him up.
01:14 One, two, three!
01:15 Aw, you've got the fur of the forest animals.
01:19 Atticus' owner brought him to us because he suffers from recurrent otitis and a loss of balance issues.
01:25 He's got beautiful beads.
01:27 Oh, sorry, does it hurt? I'll take care of it.
01:31 Okay?
01:32 We feel that he's in pain.
01:35 We're just going to go ahead and anesthetize him so we can figure out what's going on.
01:39 Are you ready, big boy?
01:44 Let's go on an adventure.
01:46 We are predicting a middle-serum function, a ruptured eardrum, or a mass.
01:52 And what we're seeing now is a ton of dried up debris.
01:58 I should be seeing the membrane of the eardrum.
02:02 It's a big old pile of debris.
02:05 But I'm not seeing anything. It's just debris and debris.
02:09 Oh, oh! So far, I see no eardrum.
02:14 The Eardrum
02:16 The eardrum is absent. He did sleep, which is very common.
02:22 First, we're going to clean his ear to try to get that wax off the floor.
02:28 When that wax, that gets hard, it stops the otitis from forming and they'll just keep cycling.
02:34 A ruptured eardrum is not abnormal for a dog with chronic otitis.
02:40 And I think this also drives him to tilt his head and causes the neurological symptoms that his owner was talking about.
02:46 He has a ruffled ear. Go get it.
02:49 Let's work it again.
02:52 I'm going to flush the urine and the secretions here.
02:56 We're going to do a secondary infection to get the ear to grow back.
03:00 The big old dream box.
03:02 Can I just grab it?
03:03 Yes.
03:07 There you go.
03:08 I don't want any.
03:10 How does it feel?
03:11 It's crispy like a chip.
03:13 Now we're going to try to take the remaining earwax with a little brush.
03:17 It's the big spring cleaning.
03:20 There's another one.
03:22 I can't say.
03:23 I'm going to have it.
03:25 I'm kind of obsessed with this fault. I know.
03:28 I can't stop it until it's perfect.
03:30 Come on, get out of there.
03:32 You got it.
03:34 Woohoo!
03:36 Got it.
03:37 My hands are dirty.
03:39 Top of the virtual.
03:41 I'm back down to the floor.
03:43 It's better.
03:45 Yes.
03:46 All right, let's do this.
03:48 I don't know if I can see.
03:49 Atticus's other ear was completely fine.
03:51 So I think that his problem was a little bit of a pack of cerumen on the right that was preventing the otitis from healing.
03:56 And now that we've got that removed, the infection should be completely fine.
03:59 You did a good job.
04:00 Yeah.
04:01 Well done.
04:02 Atticus is going to come back home with perfect ears.
04:05 Mom will need to finish them out and give him his treatment.
04:09 We're hoping to get him back in a few weeks.
04:12 He did really well.
04:14 The anesthesia room was ruptured.
04:16 Yeah, he's a wonderful dog.
04:17 Thank you.
04:18 He's a wonderful dog.
04:19 He is.
04:20 I'm hoping that after today's intervention, Atticus will not need a long-term treatment.
04:26 Call me if anything is a problem.
04:28 Okay, sounds good.
04:29 So Atticus is going to get all of the treats that he wants.
04:33 We're both happy to be home, too.
04:36 Good boy.
04:39 [music]
04:46 [silence]
04:48 [birds chirping]