If you look on your pet s ears, you should see a shiny pink skin. It should almost be waxy in nature. You might see little white insects running around on the inside of its ears, as well. The other sign that your cat has ear mites is if there is a dark brown greasy substance in the crevices of its ears. If a mother has it, these mites can easily crawl from one pet to another.
Ear mites are contagious and that s typically how they are transferred and obtained.
Ear mites will cause your cat to lower one ear close to the ground. It s bothered by that ear. You might even notice your cat scratching at the infected ear. Mites feed off the blood of the ears of cats. They live right there inside your pet.