Ear haematoma - any advice?

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Earlier this week, I noticed my springy Springer, Molly, was shaking her head quite vigorously - she's never had ear problems before. I was about to put her in the car to come to work with me, but nearly took her back home, such was the ferocity of her head shaking. However, she seemed to calm down, so she jumped in the car with my Munsterlander and I thought nothing more of her head shaking interlude - lots of running about and playing during the day - whole incident forgotten. However, last night, OH asked whether I'd felt Molly's ear......it was HUGE!!! He thought it was an ear haematoma and may need draining by vet. Molly seems quite happy but ear is VERY deformed! Will call vet tomorrow (it's apparently not a veterinary emergency!) but does anyone else have experience of this, please?
 
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Earlier this week, I noticed my springy Springer, Molly, was shaking her head quite vigorously - she's never had ear problems before. I was about to put her in the car to come to work with me, but nearly took her back home, such was the ferocity of her head shaking. However, she seemed to calm down, so she jumped in the car with my Munsterlander and I thought nothing more of her head shaking interlude - lots of running about and playing during the day - whole incident forgotten. However, last night, OH asked whether I'd felt Molly's ear......it was HUGE!!! He thought it was an ear haematoma and may need draining by vet. Molly seems quite happy but ear is VERY deformed! Will call vet tomorrow (it's apparently not a veterinary emergency!) but does anyone else have experience of this, please?
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One of mine bashed his ear on the pen at Discover Dogs and it came up like a tennis ball.

Vets drained it & tacked it through with x ray film either side so it didn't refill whilst healing. Vets now tend to use buttons.

The prognosis is good but you may need to invest in a blow up e collar to prevent scratching.
 
It does need an op. We had an old hound who had a cauliflower ear from an untreated aural haematoma, poor girl.
She will also need the cone of shame. :-(
 
My old IWS had this many years ago. Think it was caused by vigorous head shaking and bashing it on something. Vet drained it and never caused any more problems, definitely needs looking at though.
 
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