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| Our little Terrier has been scratching and knibbling all over himself for a number of weeks. To start with he made his rear end and half his tail red raw and we took him to the vet, I was convinced it was a mange but the vet checked him and he had no infestation and diagnosed "hot spots" which BTW are not hot?? He also prescribed antibiotics. The red raw parts deflamed and the hair grew back but the dog still itches, scratches and knibbles all over, not enough to make himself raw again but enough to wake me up every night hearing his scratching or wobbling the bed frame. He sleeps under my bed. We have tried two different de fleaers, had him bathed and groomed but he still itches. I wondered about bathing him with a coal tar shampoo used for sceriosis in people but does anyone have any ideas?? At about the same time it all started we changed his food to Old Roy and wonder if that started an allergic reaction but he has been off that for over a month now. The Vet said "with hot spots they just come and go, dont worry too much about it"
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| Hey B.B. the Old Roy is it the dry food that's high protein which comes in a brown bag? Mom Curs eat anything and just recently they (dogs) went of strick with that food. Since they've changed manufactory it's food has gone down hill. Mom has to get their food from Dodge City Feed and Seed place in Denham Springs. How old is the dog and weight? When you went to the vet did they check for heartworms? you could use burnt oil and sulphur you can try gentian violet Does your wife have any blue coat running around the barn? or if all falls 10 th of a cc per 10 lbs of Ivomec or ivomec (reduce) give one shot under the skin wait for 7 days and then give another shot. Hope this helps some.
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When our older dog was a pup I tried feeding her Ol' Roy. She promptly came down with ringworm: which manifested as severe itchiness and clumps of fur falling off her hind end leaving little round bald patches. The vet chastised me for feeding her cheap food (!) (although I think the problem was compounded by the fact that the crap heartworm/flea & tick combo product they prescribed me allowed her to contract hookworm at the same time so her immune system was suppressed making her more susceptible to the ringworm...) Anyhoo...the solution was to switch to a better food (Iams is what I used and is not SO much more expensive than the el cheapo stuff if you consider that you feed less of it and incur fewer vet bills...) and to give her a bath followed by a lime-sulfur rinse twice a week until it cleared up. This was a HUGE pain in the butt: at the time my son was just 4 months old and hubby was away at sea, so I had to have a friend come over and watch the baby while I bathed the puppy. Puppy didn't like a bath, so I'd have to get into a swimsuit and get IN the tub with her to bathe her (and physically keep her in the water - she was a 50lb pup!), then take her outside and pour the bucket of sulfa-lime stuff over her. Funny to think of it now as I think I have since endured worse for my goats and sheep...
Anyway, if you think it is ringworm you might want to try an antifungal like athletes foot powder or cream (lamisil or even tolnaftate cream) on the hot spots: it is unlikely to hurt the pup and worst case just won't do anything for the problem. I have also used Tea-tree oil (dissolved in a little water or apple cider vinegar) for a fungal infection in donkey hoofs - it works - but smells pretty funky and may not be the best choice if pup sleeps under your bed!!
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| Grapefruit seed extract (GSE at the local health store) a little goes a long ways on fungal infections, too. Blue Star Ointment Tetterine Blis-To-Sol
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| Most of this is way over my head. I will get my wife to respond this evening when I get home.
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| Oh the GSE...use a damp cotton ball and put only 2 to 4 drops and dab it on the spot. It might burn if you don't cut it.
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| He was being fed tinned Old Roy and I took him off it about 4 weeks ago, his now on Beneful. His 7 years old about the size of a West Highland Terrier and weight between 25 and 30 lb. His de-fleaed about every 4 weeks and was recently wormed although I don't think the wormer treats heart worm and I shall go to the vet and pick up some heart worm wormer this week. I'm also going to put him on only chicken and rice for the next six weeks and see if this makes any difference. I don't think that it's round worm m as he doesn't seem to have any symptoms, I will try bathing him over the week end in some of the remedies that you have suggested. Thank you and I'll make sure that Ian keeps you posted.
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| The trainer my son works with on obedience and agility dog competition HATES Beneful. I'm not sure why, but she says to people "it WILL kill your dog". Now, I know dog people are often quite opinionated, but I wonder if the Old Roy isn't to blame, but perhaps the Beneful? I don't know anything about that feed, but maybe others on here do? A google search might also turn up some internet chatter about Beneful. I have my dogs on lamb and rice only. Even when I switch the Springer to chicken and rice he starts sneezing and acting itchy - so it's back to lamb and rice. As another poster said, you might pay more for quality food - but you save in the long run in vet bills and worry.
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| To be honest here. Our dog and cat eat out the same bowl at the same time. They get Fred's cat food. The cat out weighs the dog but they were brought up together and I'm going to keep it that away.
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