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I found a puppy back in the early days of October (we estimate him to be over 8 weeks of age) and I have been treating him for sarcoptic mange and he has been doing well. But yesterday I noticed his back end (hips and back legs) seem rather small and he walks awkwardly and his tummy is bloated sometimes. Do you know what could be wrong with him? PLEASE note that he HAS been wormed, this was what I suspected at first and I also did research on a condition called Bloat but it doesn’t really say anything about the back end being small. I’m going to feed him less and give him time to digest his food before play but does anyone have any suggestions/ ideas for home treatment or what could be causing it?
What I meant by (he has been wormed) is that he is wormless I’ve treated him and given him is puppy worming meds already hes up-to-date. And sadly I cannot take him to the vet (you wanna pull $200 bucks out your ass for me to take him I’ll gladly take it) but my cousin is a VET and she will be checking on him I just wanted to see if anyone els has had simaller expereances.

Nobody here can see through the monitor so a diagnoses is not possible. Even if someone offers suggestions, they could be wrong and following any advice here for your dog’s problems could make things worse.The best place to get answers about your dog’s problems are from your vet.
It really sounds like the dog is in need of vet’s attention, please take him asap.

She is 5 1/2 mo. and has had a rough start due to the inhumane treatment from her breader. She had developed Blisters under her neck, chest and front legs. She will scratch and they ooze and bleed. My first thought was sarcoptic mange, but I dipped her last week and it is spreading. Any thoughts. I plan to take her to be checked after the weekend, but wish I could do something now.
It’s not like I’m waiting on purpose. I don’t get paid until saturdays, and my vet office isn’t open then.

Also, I used the treatment for sarcoptic mange in dogs found over the counter and followed the directions carefully.
OK got her in the vet today and I was right about the mange, just not the right kind of mange. She has "RED" mange and she got an infection on top of it from scratching. She’s on med’s and is scheduled for dips. Thank you all.

Not sure what you mean by "blisters". It sounds like a skin infection perhaps. It’s best if your vet does a skin scrape to determine whether it is sarcoptes or demodectic mites. Treatment is different. Or, it could be a bad staph infection and might need antibiotic therapy. Meanwhile, you can bathe her in a gentle oatmeal shampoo made for dogs, using cool water. That might be soothing. Call your vet tomorrow and maybe they can recommend a safe antihistamine until you can get her in. Maybe they can see her before the weekend?

Please crosspost! These babies only have until tomorrow!

These are 8 week old puppies in need of an angel!

They have sarcoptic mange but it is not a bad case. They have already received their first treatment of Promeris.

We need a foster for 3 weeks – they just need love and a safe place to recover.

They are most likely little shepherd/chow pups and so sweet!

We will provide all food and medical.

Thank you!

Kelly
Homeward Bound
San Antonio, TX
Bluestari@aol.com

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Dogs with scabies dig and bite at themselves with great ferocity. Their skin reacts with oozing sores, and secondary infection may set in, requiring treatment with an antibiotic in addition to treatment for the mites. Unfortunately, the sarcoptic mange mite can be difficult to find in skin scrapings, and unless the veterinarian parts the hair and carefully examines the bare skin for the characteristic pin-point bite marks, diagnosis is difficult. Furthermore, the presence of a secondary skin infection can hamper the search for the mite bite marks.

Along the line that it is better to teach a man to fish than to just give him a fish, and because this is probably not the last thing in your life that you will need to paraphrase, here are a few suggestions as to how to do it.

Make a simple outline of the paragraph, for example:

Signs of scabies, aka sarcoptic mange:
severe itching
oozing sores due to scratching
possible infection of the sores

Cause: sarcoptic mites

Diagnosis: by finding the mites in skin scrapings and/or seeing
characteristic pin-point bite marks
Diagnosis is difficult because (1) The mites are hard to see,
and (2) All the scratching and subsequent infection can
make it hard to see their bite marks.

Treatment: (1) antibiotic for any infection
(2) something to kill the mites

Now, not looking again at the original, use your outline to create a new paragraph.

I hope this helps.

READ THE QUESTION BEFORE ANSWERING. ITS A UNIQUE SITUATION.

We have been adopted by a stray who is residing in our front yard and on our front porch. We feed him & give him water and have been attempting for seven days to get him into our car to get him to the vet. He appears to have mange (sarcoptic) on his ears.

Because of this, we do not want him to interact with our dogs in any way. Our dogs do not go in our front yard or go through our front door. When they leave the house, they are always loaded into our van in the garage and then we leave.

Are our dogs are risk for getting mange from this dog simply hanging around our front yard and front door? Can the mange mites come through our front door when we open the door or am I being overly paranoid?

We’re doing our best to get him calm enough to get him to the vet for treatment. However, until that occurs, he’s basically decided he’s camping out in our yard.
Call my vet for….??

I’ve had five appointments I’ve had to cancel because I can’t get him in the car to get him to the vet. They won’t diagnose over the phone and will not give medication over the phone, so the vet isn’t a help to me for this.
Without being a vet myself and actually doing a skin scraping, I’ve had a lot of experience with mange. I had two chows who had dermadectic mange all of their lives because of their wrinkly skin and moistness around their mouths. They always had cream put on them but it wasn’t totally contagious.

I’ve had 1 dog with sarcoptic mange, and it started on her ears and looks exactly like this: No hair AT ALL on his ears. The skin is thickened, leathery looking, and bumpy. It looks worse at the tip and gets better as it goes up. It usually starts at the tip and spreads upward on the ear and then to the rest of the body.

I’m just guess-timating, but I will not take a chance giving my dogs either mange, so I feel it necessary to keep them separated.

If he is a stray, seven days is not quite enough for him to trust you yet. Keep trying to get him to feel comfortable around you. This won’t work if you keep trying to shove him in a car (especially if he was once traumatized by one). Just be patient.
Or try calling your vet and explain the situation. Maybe they have some ideas; or maybe they might even be able to do a house call.
If it is demodontic or "red" mange, then you don’t need to be worried about it passing to your dogs. This type of mange is only transfered from mother to puppies. Actually all dogs have these mites- even healthy ones. The ones that lose fur have a concentrated amount in that particular area; or a weakened immune system allowing the mites to take over.
You should be more worried if it is sarcoptic mange. This type can be transfered- not only to your dogs- but to you yourself. This is another reason that I would definately try calling the vet again.

Hi so I thought I would re post this as I left details out etc…

So recently my friends girl had puppy’s (a cross breed litter of 6 4x black and 2x mixed color’s) and the b@tch got really ill and had to go for a op so was taken away from the pups from the start (she was with them for the first 2 hours) then had to have the op and was then put back with the pups once she was home, as all pups they had a weak immune system and so did mum (my friend then being a complete and utter idiot let a dog who had demodex mange around the mum and pups, the vet told her that she can carry the mange and ‘pass’ on the mange to the pups and mum as their immune systems where weak so she had to use and anti bacterial gel every time before handling the pups!).
After 3 weeks she took the pups for another check up and the vets noticed that they had little bald spots and done skin scrapings on every pup and it was diagnosed as demodex mange so she was treating it with advocate and it appeared to be working but obviously it is an ongoing treatment (other than the mange the puppy’s where in healthy condition putting on weight very well etc etc, so before anyone says they must have been left in appalling conditions to get this mange they were not they were in good condition and she has vet recs to prove so!), she then advertised the puppy’s for free but told everyone who inquired about them that they have the demodex mange but it is treatable with advocate from the vet (she explained that the vet would have to either do another skin scraping or would just visibly see that the puppy needed to have more of the treatment).

Recently she received an email of one of the people who took two of the puppy’s (one for her one for her friend) saying the puppy’s had sarcoptic mange…email shown below

‘i have had the worst 72 hours of my life….

my hairy dog fell in a lake and ended up coasting me £400 at the same time i mention to my vet about puppy itching… and pointed out a rash on my arm…. he then points out that its mange…

so not only have i had to treat her my 2… my rats.. and me…. the vet bill is now 650…. you promised me that she didn’t have mange and that it was just the black ones…. and its sarcoptic mange not the one you said it was….

my friend is fuming as well.. i feel upset that you didn’t tell me from the start…

i could of treated her alot earlier to of saved pain and discomfort…. and also my animals… and myself as its more time of work for me….

she has been treated with advocate and has 6 months worth and so are mine my rats are not in a good way as there old…

i am still unsure as to what i am going to do about this situation…..

i am hoping that me telling you that me you and my friend can come to some sort of arrangement…..’

the thing is she told everyone that the puppy’s had demodex mange, she said it was clearly visible on the black puppy’s BUT she couldn’t see it on the mix colored puppy’s but that didn’t mean they didn’t have the mange and she should go to the vet and get them checked telling the vet that the puppy’s had/have demodex mange. This woman is now expecting my friend to pay for her dog falling in the lake and the treatment for her other dogs and animals (and this wwoman’sfriend is expecting my friend to pay for all the animals in her house as well), but they where told that the puppy’s COULD still have the demodex mange and should be checked by the vet and even told them what treatment to use.
I didn’t think that sarcoptic mange could be treated by advocate?

Is my friend in any fault? as she did tell the people from the start that there is still a good chance that the puppy’s have demodex mange as they where diagnosed with it from the start and where being treated with it. Shouldn’t they have taken the puppy’s to the vet and got them checked out anyway?!
Also how could the puppy’s have developed sarcoptic mange if they where diagnosed with demodex mange? none of the other puppy’s have sarcoptic mange they all have demodex mange?!
She was willing to pay for the puppy’s treatment but only if they where brought back to her as the new owners hadn’t taken the puppy’s to the vet until a week later. None of the other puppy’s given away have the sarcoptic mange only these 2 which makes no sense!

She has told the women that she is willing to pay for the puppy’s treatment if they are brought back to her but she is not willing to pay for the other animals treatment as it is the people’s fault as they did not take the puppy’s to the vet (like any normal people would!)
anne b: i said above why i deleted the question!!! the puppy’s didn’t have sarcoptic mange before going to new homes they had demodex mites which was being treated just needed on going treatment, she explained this to everyone and people where still happy enough to take the puppy’s so she was not scamming anyone or anything as they where FREE!!!
Why should she have to pay for other animals catching this mange when while the puppy’s where in her care they never had it?! vet records can prove they never sarcoptic mange that they had demodex mites and none of the other puppy’s that where given away had sarcoptic mange they have demodex mites.

Going with your questions at the end here:

1. I didn’t think that sarcoptic mange could be treated by advocate?

-No, it can’t be.

2. Is my friend in any fault?

-Hard to say.

Demodectic mange would be the mange a vet would suspect in young, indoor-raised puppies with an unhealthy dam, absolutely. That’s what she was told by HER vet was going on, and she dutifully treated for it and informed puppy buyers.

The issue is whether demodectic mange was the right diagnosis. Dogs with sarcoptic mange tend to scratch uncontrollably, so even though is very hard to diagnose with skin scrapings, chronically itchy puppies should have suggested to your friend and her vet that sarcoptic mange was potentially the issue. Skin scrapings fail to find sarcoptic mange mites AT LEAST half the time, and treating for it–the maybe mange test- is often necessary to properly diagnose sarcoptic mange.

The OTHER possibility is that the pup got sarcoptic mange after going to the new home.

3. Shouldn’t they have taken the puppy’s to the vet and got them checked out anyway?!

-Yes, absolutely, within 24-48 hours of bringing the pups home. Your friend should have required this in her contracts.

4.Also how could the puppy’s have developed sarcoptic mange if they where diagnosed with demodex mange? none of the other puppy’s have sarcoptic mange they all have demodex mange?!

They could have gotten sarcoptic mange by being around another animal with sarcoptic mange. It spreads quite easily from one dog to the next, from racoons, foxes, etc.

Yes, they can actually get both.

Are you 100% SURE the other puppies don’t have sarcoptic mange? If you are, then this one puppy got it after he went home.

http://www.marvistavet.com/html/body_sarcoptic_mange.html

http://www.marvistavet.com/html/demodectic_mange.html

ETA: Contrary to what another poster said, humans CAN get sarcoptic mange, although it’s a self-limiting infection in humans as the mites can’t reproduce on humans.

ETA: My dog had sarcoptic mange when I adopted her from the shelter. She had been in a foster home (as were all their pups) and the shelter didn’t know about the mange.

Because i took her to the vet w/in 24 hours, I had no problem at all getting the shelter to reimburse me for the costs of treatment.

My dog was one on which the scrapings didn’t find the mites, although she couldn’t even eat without stopping to scratch herself, so we began a series of ivermectin injections that cleared it. (The so-called "Maybe Mange" test.)

She had been living mainly outdoors with the foster family’s other dogs, so we’re pretty sure it came from foxes and ALL their dogs also needed treatment because it’s so contagious!

Just wondering, but I adopted a puppy 3 weeks ago and at his fist visit my vet and I suspected he would be a medium/large dog. He’s gone to the vet every Friday for Sarcoptic Mange Treatment and in the first week he’d gained a pound in the second week a few ounces, but earlier when I dropped him off he’d gain 5lbs in one week!….Is this okay? He’s about 11 weeks old now so do pups usually go through a growth spurt around this time?…Everything is fine with him health wise other than him having tapeworms which he was treated for today, but could that have made him gain so much weight? Or is this to be expected?
Also, he’s on the best quality dog food I’ve been able to find where I live.

this is normal just like kids they have growth spurts.
Also realize that tapeworms is from fleas so the house and yard should be treated

Does anyone know about this treatment for mange "sarcoptic" ?? I bought some today because I have tried the 21 day treatment of Ivermectin with NO luck..I’m just curious if it will work as well as the co-op people told me it would..??

ive never heard of GOOD experiences with that stuff…
best bet is medicated dips done at your vet…
mange is VET worthy and ivermectin often doesnt work for mange…you need dips…

NEVER USE MOTOR OIL
that is animal abuse and can KILL your dog, motor oil can poisen your dog… and doesnt kill the mange parisite!

The vet said at first he had demodex. After a skin scrape she said it was sarcoptic. However my other dogs are showing no signs and neither are myself, children,or husband. Is it possible she was wrong? The puppy is not loosing hair and is a bit itchy, but I bathed all dogs in lime sulfur solution which may have dried out their skin. If it is sarcoptic how can I get it off my furniture and carpet. *Note* I have suede furniture. Also how many treatments will it take to rid him of this. I contacted the breeder and her vet and all other puppies tested negative as well as mother and my dogs as well. He has had the dip and Revolution. Thanks for all help as I have never dealt with this. Oh, he is a Shar Pei and is prone to sensitive skin as well and 10 weeks old. Thanks!
I would like to thank everyone for their helpful info. My other dogs have tested positive and I had a skin scrape today (neg for scabies), but positive for dog allergy. We are working on it and I have put them on the dip (as the vet ordered previously) and Ivermectin. Along with antibiotic for my chi as her white blood cell count is up. Once again THANKS TO ALL for the help:)

If the vet said it was sarcoptic after a skin scrape, then yes, it is most definitely sarcoptic mange. He found the mites with the scrape.

This is actually better, as it’s easily treated. Demodex is not easily treated at all,

Typical treatment for sarcoptic mange is a series of ivermectin treatments, either orally or by injection, usually over the course of 3 -6 weeks. It’s very effective.

When my dog had this (she came home from the rescue with it) we did ivermectin injections and I was told to get a spray from the pet store to treat my house and car, and to keep her away from other dogs during the treatment phase. We were also told to use Benadryl for the itching early on.

Skin scrapes only find the mites about half the time, so negative skin scrapes on the other dogs don’t mean they don’t have it. If any of them seem unusually itchy, they should also be treated. Often, sarcoptic mange is diagnosed by treating it–if the treatment works, the diagnosis is confirmed. You were lucky the scrape found the mites on your dog.

Here’s a good link on it: http://www.marvistavet.com/html/body_sarcoptic_mange.html

We recently adopted an adorable 8 week old dachshund from the ASPCA. He came with meds for demodex mange. We took for a check up yesterday. The vet we took him to says its sarcoptic mange. Now I am not sure what to do. I don’t want to pay for unnecessary treatment, as treating sarcoptic mange can get really expensive. I trust our vet but its hard for me to believe that the ASPCA would adopt out a puppy that poses a medical threat to other animals and humans. Especially since I called them and their vet had done skin scrapings too. The vets just have different results. What do I do now? Thanks for your time.

Doxies don’t usually have demodex. It’s sarcoptic that he picked up at the shelter.

Just use the meds that your vet gave. The easiest and most cost effective treatment for mange is ivermectin, but with sarcoptic even the nasty dips will work.

It is better, even if it is scarier, that it’s sarcoptic. Yes it could spread to others, but it is easily curable. Demodex usually comes back over and over because it is an immune system malfunction. Your dog is better off with this diagnosis. Doxies don’t usually get demodex. Their immune systems are not genetically weak.

And remember that the ASPCA vets are usually students or other less expensive options with only one experienced vet overseeing the “team” of others. They are not top quality at all just because of the financial aspects of the job.

Learn more about symptoms of mange and natural treatment.

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