Hey y'all,
I'm hoping someone can help me out with a skin issue/rash that is on my dog. Pretty is 15 months old and all white, except for brown fur on her ears and black spots on her skin (not fur). She's 55-60lbs. She's on Wellness Large Breed dog food.
About 3-4 months ago she started getting bumps on the left side of her trunk (between shoulder and hip). I noticed them b/c the bumps disturbed the way her fur lays against her body. Then she got more on her right shoulder blade. The bumps became red and scaly/scabby, but there's never any blood. There isn't hair loss, but the hair over these bumps is SUPER loose, and comes off of her body very easily when I'm inspecting her bumps. They don't seem to be in a particular pattern and are generally no larger than a fingernail EXCEPT, about a month ago she got two big ones. One on her front right paw and another on her back right paw. The bumps were big, about the size of my thumb and sat on the top of her foot, right before her toes. After playing roughly at the park, the skin over the bumps came off, but she was barely bleeding, like a scrape. We brought her to the vet when she got the big ones b/c I thought it may have been cancer instead of a rash. They took samples, but the test results just came back as inflammation. That was the second vet trip for this issue. On the first trip (when she only had bumps on her left side) the vet gave us an anti bacterial/fungal shampoo. We use it as instructed, but it hasn't helped. The skin on her paws has healed, but the fur hasn't grown back all the way, especially on the front one b/c she licks it sometimes, i think. She doesn't seem disturbed by the bumps. She doesn't scratch more than a normal dog, I don't think. She has similar bumps on her face, but they're very small and the vet initially said that they were just her whiskers, but once she got the other ones i noticed they were the from the same issue. I don't think it's her food b/c she's been on the same brand since we got her at 2 months. We did switch her from puppy to large breed formula once she got to be a year, but I'm pretty sure the bumps started a month before we switched formulas. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE if anyone knows what I'm talking about, or has any ideas, please give me some advice! We've brought her to the vet three times for this and they haven't been helpful, only expensive. We've been giving her Benadryl, but it hasn't helped. I also don't think it's detergent b/c there's nothing on her belly. I guess it could be her food, but Wellness is a good brand with quality ingredients! thanks everyone for reading this super long post!
Haley and Pretty
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I'm hoping someone can help me out with a skin issue/rash that is on my dog. Pretty is 15 months old and all white, except for brown fur on her ears and black spots on her skin (not fur). She's 55-60lbs. She's on Wellness Large Breed dog food.
About 3-4 months ago she started getting bumps on the left side of her trunk (between shoulder and hip). I noticed them b/c the bumps disturbed the way her fur lays against her body. Then she got more on her right shoulder blade. The bumps became red and scaly/scabby, but there's never any blood. There isn't hair loss, but the hair over these bumps is SUPER loose, and comes off of her body very easily when I'm inspecting her bumps. They don't seem to be in a particular pattern and are generally no larger than a fingernail EXCEPT, about a month ago she got two big ones. One on her front right paw and another on her back right paw. The bumps were big, about the size of my thumb and sat on the top of her foot, right before her toes. After playing roughly at the park, the skin over the bumps came off, but she was barely bleeding, like a scrape. We brought her to the vet when she got the big ones b/c I thought it may have been cancer instead of a rash. They took samples, but the test results just came back as inflammation. That was the second vet trip for this issue. On the first trip (when she only had bumps on her left side) the vet gave us an anti bacterial/fungal shampoo. We use it as instructed, but it hasn't helped. The skin on her paws has healed, but the fur hasn't grown back all the way, especially on the front one b/c she licks it sometimes, i think. She doesn't seem disturbed by the bumps. She doesn't scratch more than a normal dog, I don't think. She has similar bumps on her face, but they're very small and the vet initially said that they were just her whiskers, but once she got the other ones i noticed they were the from the same issue. I don't think it's her food b/c she's been on the same brand since we got her at 2 months. We did switch her from puppy to large breed formula once she got to be a year, but I'm pretty sure the bumps started a month before we switched formulas. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE if anyone knows what I'm talking about, or has any ideas, please give me some advice! We've brought her to the vet three times for this and they haven't been helpful, only expensive. We've been giving her Benadryl, but it hasn't helped. I also don't think it's detergent b/c there's nothing on her belly. I guess it could be her food, but Wellness is a good brand with quality ingredients! thanks everyone for reading this super long post!
Haley and Pretty
Read more: http://ift.tt/104cgUl
HELP! skin issues, vet is stumped!
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