Dear Christopher Cat: I adopted a 2-year-old cat from the shelter, and I’m sure he has ear mites. How should I clean his ears? What home remedies do you recommend for ear mites? Does tea tree oil kill ...

I've read that if a pet has ear mites, these mites can travel to bedding and furniture and potentially attach themselves to a human host. I also understand that you don't need your own pet to be at ...

We adopted two kittens from a shelter. The female, a silver tabby look-alike named Tinker Bell, is very skittish. Since we adopted the kittens, Tinker Bell has had ear mites in one ear. Our ...

The New England Journal of Medicine recently posted this creepy video of ear mites crawling around in some poor 70-year-old man’s ear. The Taiwanese resident complained of “a sense of fullness in the ...

I’ve been cleaning out my office for weeks now, trying to win a bet with a friend over who can get organized faster. Working like a pack of crazed weasels, I won the bet and, in the process, I ...

Q: How do ear mites travel? I have a kitten I just brought into the house who I think had ear mites because her ears were dirty, and now my other cats have dirty ears. How does that happen? I can’t ...

Question: I recently got a new dog and he has been scratching at his ears and they smell and have brown goo coming out. I bought some ear mite removal drops for him at the pet store but I have been ...