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Old 06-19-2012, 09:08 AM   #9
Yorkiemom1
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Originally Posted by Wylie's Mom View Post
What 'shots' are you referring to? If they were vaccines, you may want to consider holding off on those until his immune system is stronger -- but keep him protected from other dogs/outside etcetera. Maybe you meant some other kind of shots.

When they're retesting him - are they doing skin scrapes only? Bc w/ resistant mites - they will often BURROW under the skin and aren't visible on scraping...burrowed mites can only be found via biopsy of the skin. Maybe a biopsy would tell you something...?

So sorry he's going through this, poor little kiddo .

They will also look at hair follicles...those mites live in the hair follicles.....they travel from hair shaft to under the skin....
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