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The disease may cause psychological stress. Just shave it all off.
Bald Spot Pomeranian alopecia BSD.
Pomeranian bald spot on back. My 3 year old Pomeranian is getting bald spots on her back. She has not been scratching. However when I first noticed them they seemed a bit dirty or maybe like a burn.
She is an indoor dog and our other 3 dogs are ok. We took her to the vet and he said it looked like she had been scratching. Pomeranian black skin disease refers to symmetrical coat loss and resulting dark pigmentation of his skin in the bald areas.
Pomeranians and most other Spitz dog breeds are susceptible to a type of hair loss known as Black Skin Disease. You can buy Frontline or Advantage at Petco. Those are 2 very safe and effective flea treatments.
I dont recommend Hartz or Sargeants. Treat any other pets in the house as well. Vacuum very thoroughly every day and throw the vac bag out of the house not just in the trash because they can jump back out.
Wash anything washable the dog goes on. The Symptoms of Alopecia in Pomeranians. Occurs in adolescence to early adulthood usually by four years of age although signs may appear at any time.
Gradual loss of color and lushness of the coat. Gradual and symmetrical loss of outer coat usually ranging from shoulders to hind legs. Increasingly dry cottony undercoat.
Most dogs especially double-coated breeds will shed their coats twice a year in the spring and fall. This can lead to the appearance of patchy or bald spots as the undercoat fills back in with new growth. However if the hair loss is extensive or not coinciding with normal seasonal changes it is not normal.
However it is important for Pom owners to know about Pomeranian BSD otherwise known as Black Skin Disease. When a Pom has this it is a gradual loss of fur. The stages of it normally occur as so.
The puppy or dog will have odd patches of. This problem is most commonly found in Samoyeds Chows Pomeranians and Keeshonden. The loss of hair begins on the tail the back of the dogs neck and the rear of the thighs.
Then it slowly moves to the dogs body. The skin darkens and the coat looks like a puppys coat. Biopsy done to rule out other potential causes.
Mitotane is one option. Pomeranians are known for their lush double coats with coarse outercoat and dense undercoat. A bald Pomeranian or a hairless Pomeranian is disconcerting.
Alopecia in Pomeranians can be one of several things to cause your Pom to lose hair. Pom puppies though experience a natural thin coat stage. Alopecia areata also known as spot baldness is a condition in which hair is lost from some or all areas of the body.
Often it results in a few bald spots on the scalp each about the size of a coin. The disease may cause psychological stress. People are generally otherwise healthy.
In a few cases all the hair on the scalp is lost alopecia totalis or all body hair is lost alopecia. My dog approx 2 12 yr 23 lb llasoshitsu mix seems to chew on himself. The spot swells gets raw hell stay on that one then start another.
When fur grows back its brownish rather than his gray. Vet gives steroid shot antibiotics. Does NOT know cause.
Rec University of FL vet clinic. Pet is on Science Diet Sensitive Skin food. This is a bald spot that occurs in the area where the hair has already been clipped.
It is simply a failure of the hair to regrow at the same rate as it did before. Some dogs develop alopecia after an injection so if your pup received his vaccinations recently this may explain why he had a bald spot that grew back. Most likely if the bald spot is still there 1 month later there is another cause.
Potentially demodexx mites could be the cause. If the area seems to be spreading then I would recommend a skin scrape through your vet to look for mites which can then be treated for. Now 2 weeks later he has a tiny bald spot there and the liquid is gone.
He does not scratch that spot at all. I carefully inspected it and it is not red or infected at all. Its just a tiny bald spot that seems to be slowly regrowing hair.
On the picture i included the spot looks red but in real life the spot is pale just like his skin color. The disease manifests initially as thinning hair sometimes accompanied by itchy skin and sometimes not followed by bald patches followed by blackened or dark gray skin. Eventually the dog can become completely bald with deep charcoal-gray skin.
Often the dog will smell really bad. The dogs above were suffering Alopecia X. The condition you are describing is focal alopecia which is a localized area of hair loss on a dog.
Pyotraumatic dermatitis also known as hot spots can leave such a characteristic lesion after they heal. Due to damage to the hair follicles during active inflammation the hair may or may not grow back well. The second way is to cut the rest of your hair a little longer then brush it forward sideways or back to cover the bald spot.
Good haircuts for this include the mop top slick back pompadour and quiff all of which weve covered in our guide to the best haircuts for thinning hair. Finally theres the nuclear option. Just shave it all off.
Saying nothing but only laughing a little Carl placed the corn back onto the display and quickly left the store crawling back under the porch. As the sun began to set Carl crawled out from under the porch and began walking down the middle of street his arms stretched out straight to both sides of his body. Thank you SO SO SO much for this postI have this terrible part that goes down far enough to look like a raging bald spot on the back of my head.
Every morning I literally try to comb over it and it never works. This could not have been more helpful. Bald Spot Pomeranian alopecia BSD.
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Well Ill be darned. I have an appointment with the vet on Saturday because two of my boxers have developed bald spots on their hips. Theyre just small spots right now but its just so odd that theyre in the exact same spot on both dogs.
Ill update the post when I get a diagnosis from my vet.