 Coat and appetite
Bug is beautiful! Thank goodness there are good folks like you around to take on little "lovebugs" like Bug! Don't be ashamed. My recently rescued Yorkie looks a lot like Bug... patchy hair, either oily or dry skin, and open sores.
What seems to be helping him is a product called Missing Link. It is a powder that can be mixed in the food--a sort of super supplement. Stanford really likes it, and his skin is showing improvement after about three weeks on it. I give him about 1/8th of a teaspoon per day, mixed into the food.
Give Bug some time on this, and high quality food. I feed Stanford Solid Gold, which he sucks down in record time.
I also use a coal tar shampoo formulated for dogs. It immediately got rid of a lot of his nasty skin flakes, and reduced the itching by about half.
All of these products should be available in your local pet store.
Keep us posted. You are doing a wonderful thing, and as I am finding out, you will not regret it. |