First I am so happy that I found this website. I purchased my yorkie 2 1/2 months ago from (what i thought was a good breeder) but turned out to be a horrible breeder because of the condition Bebe was in.
She looked fine, but wasnt the out-going or curious puppy that a puppy should act, but i just told myself that she wasnt being friendly because I was a stranger to her. I was searching for my puppy for a year now,and didnt want to spend tons of $, because i couldnt afford it, and I thought that as long as i didnt spend too little, I could get a healthy puppy. I spent $900 on Bebe, and ended up spending $2300+ on her total because of vet bills. What i learned from that was never buy a dog from an unknown breeder. There are tons of horrible breeders out there.
Since i have had bebe, its been nothing buy worring sick about her. The 4th day we had her we rushed her to the Emer. room because her appetite was very minimal then diminished to nothing and she looked like she was dying, and ended up being hypoglycemia and she also had coccidia. She was treated for both and for 1 month we had to hand feed her baby food and nutrical every 2 hrs because she wouldnt eat. On top of that her SKIN!!!!! The first thing that happened was around her eye, it looked irritated and kinda goupy. we thought she had an eye infection until the hair started to fall out and got crusty and red around her eye. we took her to the vet and they thought nothing of it, which i thought was weird. I thought it was demodectic mange from doing research on the web. So i took her to a second vet. The skin around her eye got worse, the infected area got bigger, they did a skin scrape, mange came out negative. the vet thought immediately after that, it was ringworm so she gave me mitroconazole lotion to put on the area while they did a second skin scrape for ringworm but came out negative too. I was still worried about her skin around the eye and took her back to the vet to get a fourth evaluation and then they found 4 more spots on her body that were definately ringworm, it was shaped in a ring, where the spot on her eye did not. we kept on treating her with mitroconazole lotion and gave her selsun blue baths every 3 days and didnt seem to be helping. We took her back to the vet and she said we were drying her skin out with the baths. so we stopped the baths. and just recently have we noticed the rest of her body is geting flaky. this is something totally new, we feel so helpless and dont know what to do. the rest of her body doesnt look like ringworm or mange, but just looks dry with white flakes. Cound it be that she has allergies or that the ringworm has gone out of control. I have been treating her for ringworm for a month now. I got ringworm myself on 6 different spots and my other dog got it on herself too. can anyone help me, is there a different way I can treat the ringworm more effectively? Has anyone else out there gone though this? I dont know what to do with her dry flaky body. also the ringworm spots we have been treating, the hair is still absent, no hair is growing back... is that normal? also her head which was black and tan changed to this greyish white and the hair is really thinning out. Is that normal for a 4 month old puppy? will it change to a different color, how long does it take for her to hair to go into its permanent color. her body is still jet black, will that change too? Please help. O
Thank you, Jennifer
