| If you know what you are doing, and if dog is very mellow, you could probably use Q-tip type swabs. But if dog is at all jumpy or human is novice, I'd for sure avoid it. In addition to problem mentioned above, if the swab stick is plastic or cardboard it can bend and make it around that curve. If wood it can break, esp if dog suddenly moves. In general there is no reason to go down so deep as a swab is needed to do, and a ball of cotton (or cotton wrapped tightly around a finger) will get the parts needed to be gotten just fine.
There is a "rule" (sort of thing a grandmother might say?) for humans of "put nothing in your ear that is smaller than your elbow. Too extreme, but point is there can be injury. |