[Doodlebug]

I just wanted to post a couple of pictures of Teddy Bear's brown recluse spider bite so if anyone else notices something like this on their pup, they might have an idea of what it is. Sorry, it is pretty gross.

The first pic is within 3 hours of the bite. We noticed he had a spot of blood the size of a quarter on his leg and it looked like a raised bump on his leg with a black center that was oozing blood out of it.

We rushed him to the vet as soon as we saw it and she squeezed a bunch of chunky white gunk out of it. They referred to it as "cottage cheese". That is how quickly the wound was forming from the spider bite. After the vet squeezed the gunk out this is how it looked. If you touched the bump, it was hard beneath his skin. The vet said that the hard lump beneath the skin was a sign that it was a brown recluse bite.

I just wanted to post pics of his spider bite because I noticed some other pups have been bitten by spiders lately. This is how quickly the recluse bite started doing it's damage to Teddy Bear. I don't know if the bite would be the same for every pup, so if it doesn't look like this but you suspect it is a brown recluse spider bite, you might consider having a vet look at it.

By day #4 a scab was already forming and it was healing. I believe that it healed so quickly because we got him to the vet so quickly and the venom was squeezed out quickly. Also I believe that the prayers from my Yorkie Talk Family was what really brought him through this.

The vet had told us that it was going to get a lot worse before it got better but it didn't. It started healing immediately. Everyone was astonished that it was healing so quickly.

The reason we knew that he had just gotten the bite was that we had Teddy Bear at the vet a couple of hours before because of bloody diarrhea. The vet had to get a stool sample from him and the bite was located on the rear of his leg where we would have seen it when she was getting his stool sample.

I'm having a terrible time resizing these and posting so pic #2 will follow #maybe#.