Bella Hot A Wierd Sore...

[Guest WI_grey_mom]

Last night as I was going over the dogs I noticed Bella has a weird, angry looking, red sore. She doesn't react when I touch it so it doesn't seem to be painful, but I'm a bit worried. Even more because it is lighter in the middle than the outside.I checked to see if there was a tick involved but I don't see a tick at all.

Here are a few pictures to help

 

Ideas, or suggestions on how to rid the poor Bean of a sore spot?

 

eta: And the title was supposed to be Bella HAS a wierd sore. I can't spell

Edited May 17, 2008 by WI_grey_mom

[Guest BooMooandDoo]

Looks like a hot spot to me, but I'm not a vet.

[Guest shelbygirl07]

I agree that it looks like a hot spot.. I use 2 things for hot spots:

 

Anamax Cream - from the vet and MegaTek Coat Rebuilder

THe coat rebuilder helps sooth the hot spots and helps the hair grow back. I use this on all the spots that SHelby licks the hair off of. She has been diagnosed with LICK GRANULOMA which there is no cure for what causes hers. She just licks and licks and licks.. It started out as a skin infection due to allergies and moved onto a more untreatable learned behavior. I have coned her, washed her paws 10 times a day, wrapped her, bitter apple, hot sauce, had skin scrapes, biopsies and xrays done and we have settled on the fact that she is not going to stop licking. SO now i just treat and correct her when i see her doing it. She does it 99% of the time when we are sleeping..... The cone doesn't work because she's figured out how to lick around the cone.. GRRRR Even muzzling her doesn't help.... She does it as a self soothing thing like a baby with a pacifier...

Edited May 17, 2008 by shelbygirl07

[Guest WarmheartedPups]

Those look exactly like what Roo gets...in fact she has five right now....and she got them after playing and running with other dogs. I think they are skin bruises.. lighter in the middle...pretty round in shape.

 

If it runs the same course as before...they get a little bigger sometimes turn into more of a bruise looking thing and disappear in about for or five days.

 

I can touch them, there is no raised area....it looks like it is just beneath the skin....and they dont itch and she doesnt lick at them

 

She has had them before and never a problem.

Edited May 17, 2008 by WarmheartedPups

[Guest SusanP]

It reminds me of the sandfly bites my hounds get up in the Boundary Waters area of MN. I had run to a vet with one of them, fearing the bulls-eye mark of lyme disease. They get them on tummies and thighs.

[msjpk]

Have your puppers been laying in the grass lately? If so, they are bites from the buggers in the grass.

I use chigger ointment, gone in a few hours.

[Aerosmom]

If it looks bullseye-like, I'd check it out at the vet... hope it's nothing.

[Guest JenZ]

Lucy had several spots like that turn up on her belly last year. I was terrified it was ringworm (ringworm often shows up with ring-like sores on the skin, and it is AWFULLY hard to get rid of), so she went through a battery of tests that all came up negative. I ended up putting Sulfadine (from the pet store) on the sores, and they were gone in 2 days. I guess it was just hot spots or ecsema!

 

Jen

 

 

[LaFlaca]

Wendy has a scar that looks just like that, on her shoulder, under the fur. It's not red, sort of a silvery color. I had myself all worked up imagining someone from her 'old life' had burned her with a cigarette.

[Guest WI_grey_mom]

Thank you everyone for the responses. They must have been a little hot spot or from something in the grass. I cleaned it with a little rubbing alchohol and it has cleared up nicely. I am just a worrywart mom.

[Guest Spencers_Greyt]

It looks like a bruise to me. If it isn't raised, scaley or oozing then I would think it's a bruise.

 

[tbhounds]

Mayfly bite----they usually resolve in a couple of days--sounds like it's getting better already