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Old January 8th 04, 10:39 PM
Rona Yuthasastrakosol
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I've always noticed that my cat's ears smell a little strange. It's not
necessarily a bad strange, but they sort of smell like cookie dough to me.
Is this unusual or do most cats have cookie dough or odd-smelling ears? The
rest of her face and body smell pretty normal, as far as cats go. Her
breath smells a bit fishy but I'm pretty sure that is normal. She doesn't
have ear mites, as far as I know, and the insides of her ears look pretty
clean. Any ideas as to why the cookie dough smell?

I swear I'm not trolling--her ears really do smell like cookie dough!

rona

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Old January 8th 04, 11:27 PM
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"Rona Yuthasastrakosol" wrote in message
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I've always noticed that my cat's ears smell a little strange. It's not
necessarily a bad strange, but they sort of smell like cookie dough to me.
Is this unusual or do most cats have cookie dough or odd-smelling ears?

The
rest of her face and body smell pretty normal, as far as cats go. Her
breath smells a bit fishy but I'm pretty sure that is normal. She doesn't
have ear mites, as far as I know, and the insides of her ears look pretty
clean. Any ideas as to why the cookie dough smell?

I swear I'm not trolling--her ears really do smell like cookie dough!

rona

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Off course, I'm going to return to the old standard (but correct) statement
that you need to call a vet. However, my *guess* would be either ear mites
(even though you can't detect them yourself) or possibly a yeast infection.
I would be particularly suspicious of the yeast infection because of the
type of odor you described. Only your vet can make the proper diagnosis and
prescribe treatment.

MaryL


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Old January 8th 04, 11:27 PM
MaryL
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"Rona Yuthasastrakosol" wrote in message
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I've always noticed that my cat's ears smell a little strange. It's not
necessarily a bad strange, but they sort of smell like cookie dough to me.
Is this unusual or do most cats have cookie dough or odd-smelling ears?

The
rest of her face and body smell pretty normal, as far as cats go. Her
breath smells a bit fishy but I'm pretty sure that is normal. She doesn't
have ear mites, as far as I know, and the insides of her ears look pretty
clean. Any ideas as to why the cookie dough smell?

I swear I'm not trolling--her ears really do smell like cookie dough!

rona

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Off course, I'm going to return to the old standard (but correct) statement
that you need to call a vet. However, my *guess* would be either ear mites
(even though you can't detect them yourself) or possibly a yeast infection.
I would be particularly suspicious of the yeast infection because of the
type of odor you described. Only your vet can make the proper diagnosis and
prescribe treatment.

MaryL


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Old January 11th 04, 04:27 AM
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I would advise an ear cleaning before calling a vet. If they still smell bad
after that, then call a vet.

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"MaryL" -OUT-THE-LITTER wrote in message
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"Rona Yuthasastrakosol" wrote in message
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I've always noticed that my cat's ears smell a little strange. It's not
necessarily a bad strange, but they sort of smell like cookie dough to

me.
Is this unusual or do most cats have cookie dough or odd-smelling ears?

The
rest of her face and body smell pretty normal, as far as cats go. Her
breath smells a bit fishy but I'm pretty sure that is normal. She

doesn't
have ear mites, as far as I know, and the insides of her ears look

pretty
clean. Any ideas as to why the cookie dough smell?

I swear I'm not trolling--her ears really do smell like cookie dough!

rona

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Off course, I'm going to return to the old standard (but correct)

statement
that you need to call a vet. However, my *guess* would be either ear

mites
(even though you can't detect them yourself) or possibly a yeast

infection.
I would be particularly suspicious of the yeast infection because of the
type of odor you described. Only your vet can make the proper diagnosis

and
prescribe treatment.

MaryL




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Old January 11th 04, 04:27 AM
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I would advise an ear cleaning before calling a vet. If they still smell bad
after that, then call a vet.

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"MaryL" -OUT-THE-LITTER wrote in message
...

"Rona Yuthasastrakosol" wrote in message
...
I've always noticed that my cat's ears smell a little strange. It's not
necessarily a bad strange, but they sort of smell like cookie dough to

me.
Is this unusual or do most cats have cookie dough or odd-smelling ears?

The
rest of her face and body smell pretty normal, as far as cats go. Her
breath smells a bit fishy but I'm pretty sure that is normal. She

doesn't
have ear mites, as far as I know, and the insides of her ears look

pretty
clean. Any ideas as to why the cookie dough smell?

I swear I'm not trolling--her ears really do smell like cookie dough!

rona

--
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Off course, I'm going to return to the old standard (but correct)

statement
that you need to call a vet. However, my *guess* would be either ear

mites
(even though you can't detect them yourself) or possibly a yeast

infection.
I would be particularly suspicious of the yeast infection because of the
type of odor you described. Only your vet can make the proper diagnosis

and
prescribe treatment.

MaryL




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Old January 16th 04, 02:38 AM
Rona Yuthasastrakosol
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"kaeli" wrote in message
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My guess is an infection. Sometimes it's down deep and you don't see
anything unusual.

What's "pretty clean"? My cats' ears are totally clean and pink with no
cleaning from me. The one who had an infection, the ears got a little
dirty, but not terribly so. However, checking his back claws revealed
they were also dirty. This was from him scratching his ears and the wax
got on his claws.


Her inner ears are very pink and the only other colour is from her tattoo.
I would have said, "very clean" but I'm not really sure how cat's ears
should look, so I didn't want to overstate :-). They aren't black or brown
or gunky so I didn't think she had ear mites, though after Wendy's post I
may have to rethink that =:-o! The idea of a yeast infection or other type
of infection never even occurred to me!

I figured out that the cookie dough smell is like a cinnamon cookie dough.
It's actually kind of a nice smell, just a bit weird. We're off to the vet
soon for her yearly check-up, so I will ask him to check her ears
thoroughly. I think he thinks I'm like a hypochondriac by proxy for my cat,
since I'm always thinking something is wrong with her. Luckily, nothing
ever is!

Since Kaeli's was the only reply to actually show up on my news server, I'll
add thanks to Wendy and MaryL here, too! Thanks for the replies!

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