Hello,
So I was wondering if any of you have experienced this or something similar and what you did/ have any recommendations on what worked and maybe more on natural side less chemicals.
To the story: my girl is now 5 months old and about a week ago we noticed her scratching her posts at the bell we didn’t think much of it as the ear looked and smelled fine and we changed posts every two days cleaned etc properly. The only difference is a week ago we started using a new medical tape brand (German brand: Hansaplast) as we Are currently in Germany and our military base did not have medical tape in stock at that time. But again I did not think much of it. Until the scratching. I figured it might have been more uncomfortable as I noticed it was ALOT more sticky than j&js. However the scratching continued and a small wound on the outside of the bell accrued. I continued to clean the wound and repost. The last post we did was before bed and then removed the next day around noon because I noticed that small wound had gotten bigger and smelled funky. As I removed the actual post I was shocked! The areas the tape has kinda ripped some of the hair out (which I’m used to that has happened with every dobie of mine that some hair gets pulled of) was red and very minimally covered in puss but right above the original wound from the scratch it was a horrible horrible smell and just straight puss. The next step was of course no more posting. Give it time to heal until I cover it up again. At this point I realized she might have a reaction to the tape or that the tape had pulled tighter or something. But ears down. We cared for the wound and the at this point irritation with cleaning with saline and 800mgo Manuka honey (antibacterial/fungal etc, which BTW if you’re unaware of the magic of this honey I highly suggest looking into it! It’s better than any Neosporin there is! I personally use it on all my dogs and myself and we have gotten rid of cuts/infections etc within days) anyways, two days into last post removal it got bigger and did not get better, so I called my vet, and talked to them, we agreed to for 2 more days to continue honey and saline cleaning and to add a cone to keep her from scratching it up more/ getting dirt etc into the wound. 2 days past and now cleaning at night all the honey off we notice a small chunk of her ear tissue (at the tip of ear) started to die. The tissue was nothing but puss, frantically I call my vet and we get seen in the morning, this was yesterday morning. She took blood, skin samples etc and said she has no idea what could be causing it and to wait on results. Could be mites could be a fungus could be a skin disease etc.. we got anti itch medication and „ suloran „ ear drops that we were told to put on inside and outside twice a day. Upon research it’s both antibiotic and Antifungal and treats mites parasites etc.. today it was so much worse and I have the pictures of today attached. I called my vet again and same answer. We will know Tuesday (it’s Friday now) what it is and can treat it until then continue suloran , the outside and Original wound got better with it basically overnight and the honey helped that as well but with the two/three spots in the picture nothing…and two of them are new as of today…I am highly worried and at loss and freaked out as to what I can do. Tuesday is so long and maybe any of you have seen something like it have experienced it and maybe know what I can do?!
many help appricated highly!!!
So I was wondering if any of you have experienced this or something similar and what you did/ have any recommendations on what worked and maybe more on natural side less chemicals.
To the story: my girl is now 5 months old and about a week ago we noticed her scratching her posts at the bell we didn’t think much of it as the ear looked and smelled fine and we changed posts every two days cleaned etc properly. The only difference is a week ago we started using a new medical tape brand (German brand: Hansaplast) as we Are currently in Germany and our military base did not have medical tape in stock at that time. But again I did not think much of it. Until the scratching. I figured it might have been more uncomfortable as I noticed it was ALOT more sticky than j&js. However the scratching continued and a small wound on the outside of the bell accrued. I continued to clean the wound and repost. The last post we did was before bed and then removed the next day around noon because I noticed that small wound had gotten bigger and smelled funky. As I removed the actual post I was shocked! The areas the tape has kinda ripped some of the hair out (which I’m used to that has happened with every dobie of mine that some hair gets pulled of) was red and very minimally covered in puss but right above the original wound from the scratch it was a horrible horrible smell and just straight puss. The next step was of course no more posting. Give it time to heal until I cover it up again. At this point I realized she might have a reaction to the tape or that the tape had pulled tighter or something. But ears down. We cared for the wound and the at this point irritation with cleaning with saline and 800mgo Manuka honey (antibacterial/fungal etc, which BTW if you’re unaware of the magic of this honey I highly suggest looking into it! It’s better than any Neosporin there is! I personally use it on all my dogs and myself and we have gotten rid of cuts/infections etc within days) anyways, two days into last post removal it got bigger and did not get better, so I called my vet, and talked to them, we agreed to for 2 more days to continue honey and saline cleaning and to add a cone to keep her from scratching it up more/ getting dirt etc into the wound. 2 days past and now cleaning at night all the honey off we notice a small chunk of her ear tissue (at the tip of ear) started to die. The tissue was nothing but puss, frantically I call my vet and we get seen in the morning, this was yesterday morning. She took blood, skin samples etc and said she has no idea what could be causing it and to wait on results. Could be mites could be a fungus could be a skin disease etc.. we got anti itch medication and „ suloran „ ear drops that we were told to put on inside and outside twice a day. Upon research it’s both antibiotic and Antifungal and treats mites parasites etc.. today it was so much worse and I have the pictures of today attached. I called my vet again and same answer. We will know Tuesday (it’s Friday now) what it is and can treat it until then continue suloran , the outside and Original wound got better with it basically overnight and the honey helped that as well but with the two/three spots in the picture nothing…and two of them are new as of today…I am highly worried and at loss and freaked out as to what I can do. Tuesday is so long and maybe any of you have seen something like it have experienced it and maybe know what I can do?!
many help appricated highly!!!
thank you so much for the reply though! As of now until I can somehow for sure know posting won’t cause any more harm in just going to leave them hanging and if she has floppy ears then so be it, better than no ears 
we continued using suloran on the ears and bottom healed all well. The top is pretty much the same...infection has gone down by a both but the wounds have “multiplyed” I feel like! The vet did nothing until today when we got the tests back and she is finally on antibiotics as it seems to be bacterial! I still have no idea as to how outside of attaching and it getting infected but good news it’s not fungal or mites or anything. It’s just a really poppy infection. 
thank you for the suggestion! 
Did you use vet wrap?! Like have you used it?cause my only concern with vet wrap is I’ve never used it and I heard it tightens/ so restricts circulation and doesn’t let skin breathe?!
