Our Remedy Worked to Remove Ear Growth on our Dog

As dogs age, they develop lumps, skin tags, little growths, bumps, and fatty deposits. Our Weimaraner developed one on her ear, so we took her to the vet for an assessment. She pawed at it, and it bled, so we knew it had to be removed. The vet recommended cryotherapy - or freezing the small growth off. It was the size of nickel. The cryotheraphy didn't work, but we came up with something that did (after spending a lot of money) that was a lot cheaper, and our way cost about $40.

TRIED CRYOTHERAPY -   Our vet didn't do cryotherapy, so we went to another vet hospital that did do it. In fact, we went back and forth 3 times to get it done over and over again, to no avail.  In total, it cost us about $600 over 3 visits.  When I called them after the third failure, they said to come in and try it again. We didn't. Instead, we tried a home remedy that worked over the course of several months. Here's what we did.

 2 Things we used. The Freeze was the last step after 4 months

TOM'S IDEA - Tom said that since the growth was a candidate for freezing off, we should consider trying wart remover. That was BRILLIANT!  - I applied wart removal liquid to the growth every day for about 4 months. Each day, a small piece of the growth would turn black and peel or flake off. If it bled, I would clean it with alcohol and wait until it dried. Then I reapplied the wart remover. I also bandaged the growth so she wouldn't scratch it with her nail (she did originally and it bled all over, which is why we needed to remove it).

THE FINAL TOUCH - Once we got the growth down to the size of a small pimple, we applied an over the counter wart freeze (Dr. Scholl's Freezeaway Wart Remover) that finalized it.  Yes, it was a long process, but it worked. 

Today, 4 months later, Dolly has a very tiny scab where the nickel-sized growth was located.