What caused the abscess? Oscar recently went through something like that only it was not abscessed. I accidentally clipped the skin into the tiny jaw clip I was using to hold his hair up out of his eyes. When I realized what was happening, there were tiny sores on his head and the hair was falling out. I took him to the vet that day and he shaved his head about the size of a quarter and started him on Bactoderm ointment. The sores got well and his hair is coming back in where the sores were but here is the funny part...the hair up there was silver before the incident and it is coming back in red like the hair around his mouth! The only area that did not grow back is where the teeth of the clip were. The skin died in that area and my vet said that the hair would not grow back. I felt like the worst momma ever when that happened but he never acted like it bothered him. My vet wondered why he did not try to pull it out or something. I clipped it on tender skin in the bend of my arm and it was not really uncomfortable. There was just enough pressure to cut off the flow of blood to the skin on his head and over time, the skin died. Good luck with your baby...I am sure it will grow back, just don't be surprised if it is a different color! |