Quote Originally Posted by MollyWoppy View Post
Don't want to alarm you, but have to give you a word of caution. My friends pug who is 12yo, had an ear infection a couple of months ago which the vet thought wasn't clearing up because a plug of wax was preventing the medication getting to source of the problem. Eventually, after trying many different treatments and after much debate, they put him under to find the plug was actually a tumour. Luckily non malignant. But, it resulted in him getting his inner ear removed and the ear sewn up.
This is actually a good point. Since the doc can't see down the canal they assume it's a waxy plug...but probably don't know for sure.