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Originally Posted by CraftJunkie  Another update:
How did I not know that scabies in dogs is MANGE?!?! Why did my vet mislead me or talk over my head, as the case may be? Am I the only one this has happened to? I can't help but be furious over this...did he think that I would love them less if he used the horrid MANGE word?
*Rant over*
Anyway, this is a new vet that I had never used before and I am waiting on a call from another vet that I have used and that I trust...Vet #1 wants me to bring Chloe & Nitro back every other day for 4 treatments (dipping) to rid them of the mange (scabies, in his words) but not to start until their kennel cough was better. I asked if it was something I could do and he said a resounding NO!! (Each dip is $28 per pup = $56 per visit, every other day x 4 = $224 so I imagine it's not something he wants me to deal with at home.)
I want to know from Vet #2 if this is what he wants me to do (had to use Vet #1 since Vet #2 was on vacation) or if he would recommend using Ivomec, as I have done for rescue pups in the past. (<$20 for a years worth of treatment for worming/heartworm AND treatment of the mange.)
They are both feeling much better but we have got to start treating this mange immediately. Wish us luck!
Peace & Love,
~Barb~ |
For scabies the treatment is usually Revolution as that is a topical flea treatment but not sure due to size of pups so ask the vet about that as the dips are much stronger than anything even ivermectin so i would do revolution first if it was my dog. Actually I did use it to rule out scabies when dd was 9 mos old as scabies is hard to detect sometimes so we did two rounds of revolution over 2 months to make sure. The dips are usually the last resort of treatment. Not sure if he wants to do that because so much else is going on but please ask him about that.
Also revolution will act as a flea protection as well so you are attacking two things at once and it is used for heartworm as well
also humans can get scabies