{"id":16271,"date":"2026-05-16T20:50:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T19:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=16271"},"modified":"2026-05-16T20:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T19:51:11","slug":"earole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=16271","title":{"rendered":"Ear&#8217;ole"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It started about tea-time yesterday. Mavis digging at her ears and headshaking. I called the vet as soon as they opened this morning and Mavis got seen at 10.15. The diagnosis was there was something inside one of her ears. The solution was an investigation under GA. It&#8217;s absolutely heartbreaking to leave any animal with the vet so they can do surgical stuff. My heart broke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At 12.45 the vet called and said Mavis could be picked up in half an hour. She&#8217;s got drops which need to be administered (5 drops into each ear, 2x daily) to help her recover. What did the vet find, tucked away deep inside a lug&#8217;ole? This alien-looking thing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/unnamed-10-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/unnamed-10-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/unnamed-10-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/unnamed-10-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/unnamed-10-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/unnamed-10-1170x1560.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/unnamed-10-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It started about tea-time yesterday. Mavis digging at her ears and headshaking. I called the vet as soon as they opened this morning and Mavis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16274,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16271\/revisions\/16274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}