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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 5812757" data-attributes="member: 7883">It *can* last that long.  Our last dog turned out to have had E-coli for 4 years.  We only found it when he was a year old, when they do the blood test to make sure it's safe to put him under so he can get the snip snip.  The vet gave us a course of meds to fix the problem, we put him on the meds, then vet said "he's good to go", and so he had the surgery.  4 years later, when he came down with cancer (I located it on the X-rays after the vet missed it), they did some tests to find suitability for different treatment options, and determined the E-coli was still there.One of the things we'd noticed was gunky/smelly ears, and the vet had previously given us meds to fix the ear infections.  What it turned out was that the smelly ears are like a health symptom of something else going on......the vet explained they might have been an early indicator of the cancer or E-coli infection.Banshee</blockquote>