Post by fiddlegirl on Mar 19, 2012 11:34:21 GMT -5
My Anatolian has always had a tendency to have skin issues, and I need help! He just got his first hot spot of the year. I was playing with him Friday and I checked him out carefully, around his collar and on his neck, because that's usually where we have problems. He was fine! Then SATURDAY he had this smallish (1 inch across) hot spot and it's just gotten worse. Probably about 2 inches across now. He's very sensitive about me getting close to it. I spent a while with him this morning, trying to get some peroxide on it, but I wasn't very successful. I started out brushing him, and he absolutely LOVES that...it helps to get him relaxed and by the time I'd been brushing him for a little while, I was sitting on the porch and he was laying in my lap. I was going to try to clip the hair around the spot but I apparently snipped the hair on a very sensitive spot and he jumped up and ran under the house.
I ended up going under the house with him, loved on him a lot, and got a little peroxide on the spot, but it didn't make him very happy. He's super sweet and gentle and NEVER tries to bite me or anything, but he does jerk away and almost snaps...he doesn't actually snap, just a "stop that!" kind of thing. I read somewhere to put corn starch on it to dry it up? It would be nice if there was something I could do that wouldn't hurt him...
So, any advice? I was trying to avoid a vet visit...been there, done that before. He's almost 4 years old, 130 pounds, and a real gentle giant...but he doesn't take pain very well. The spot is very red, oozy, and the hair around it (not much hair on the spot at all) is bloody and matted...and it stinks pretty bad.
Thanks!
I ended up going under the house with him, loved on him a lot, and got a little peroxide on the spot, but it didn't make him very happy. He's super sweet and gentle and NEVER tries to bite me or anything, but he does jerk away and almost snaps...he doesn't actually snap, just a "stop that!" kind of thing. I read somewhere to put corn starch on it to dry it up? It would be nice if there was something I could do that wouldn't hurt him...
So, any advice? I was trying to avoid a vet visit...been there, done that before. He's almost 4 years old, 130 pounds, and a real gentle giant...but he doesn't take pain very well. The spot is very red, oozy, and the hair around it (not much hair on the spot at all) is bloody and matted...and it stinks pretty bad.
Thanks!