My spaniel has a chronic ear infection, but its growing weird thinds
My cocker spaniel Nike is having another problem:( He’s had this chronic ear infection for years… but yesterday, it appeared that there were 3 spikey things about a centimenter in length (yikes!) growing out of his right ear canal. They look like the ends of toothpicks but they are not stiff like toothpicks, but spongy like skin tissue… At first (now this is gross) I thought they were dead worms coming out of his ears, but after further inspection, I think they are growths coming from the skin of his ear canals. I don’t know what to do with them. Today I’m going to try to pull at them with a tweezer (if Nike is cooperative enough) and if I can’t seem to do anything on my own, I just might have no other choice but to take him to Dr. Jones again. I wondered if they were twigs or something lodged in his ear, but they are colored like skin tissue. I know it sounds disturbing—the imagery is disturbing. He is otherwise behaving fine, excited about eating and going outside, etc. But I wonder if he’s in pain and just dealing with it.
Do you think they might be skin tags?