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fasteddie · 10-03-2004, 03:06 PM

We were grooming Yoda today, and found two red open sores spots on his head! One right between his eyes, and one near the back of the head. It's like his skin there is just missing and we see red (no blood coming out or anything) in those areas. The spots are little, like the size of the tip of a pen (the very tip). He has been scratching the back of his head yesterday and today a bit too (where the other open red area is). Anyone have any ideas what this could be? We usually don't see bug bites like that on him, the one on the back of his head is less red and it looks to be scabbing up.

We're going to be taking him into the vet tomorrow, but wanted to know if you guys had any experience like that. Nothing new in his diet, he hasn't been playing with other dogs, and he hasn't eaten anything dangerous off the ground that we know of.

We put some vaseline on the areas right now.

10-03-2004, 03:06 PM	#1
fasteddie *YT 6000 Club Member* Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 6,238	Red Open Sores! :( We were grooming Yoda today, and found two red open sores spots on his head! One right between his eyes, and one near the back of the head. It's like his skin there is just missing and we see red (no blood coming out or anything) in those areas. The spots are little, like the size of the tip of a pen (the very tip). He has been scratching the back of his head yesterday and today a bit too (where the other open red area is). Anyone have any ideas what this could be? We usually don't see bug bites like that on him, the one on the back of his head is less red and it looks to be scabbing up. We're going to be taking him into the vet tomorrow, but wanted to know if you guys had any experience like that. Nothing new in his diet, he hasn't been playing with other dogs, and he hasn't eaten anything dangerous off the ground that we know of. We put some vaseline on the areas right now.