Bruises?
 

My yorkie has lost some of her hair on her back legs and her hair is thinning, all of this is due to food allergies, so we have since switched foods to a brand that is corn and soy free. It seems to be helping with her hair loss, it looks as though her hair is growing back on her legs. On her skin where there is no hair, she has some spots that are black.. kind of like circles, some are blue, and theres a fairly large brown spot... could this be a bruise, or what is it? Her veins? PLEASE HELP. I'm so worried.

Any way you could take a picture for us?

Spots can be so many things. If you haven't had bloodwork done a thyroid panel might be a good idea. Sometimes it can cause "spots". Sometimes its just irritation too.

I would suggest a trip to your vet and have them look at it for you...It could be something that would need treatment.

Take your dog to the vet.

What I am describing does not sound like what your dog has, but it is a good example of what can happen without your knowing it.

I took my dog to the vet for a routine checkup (she appeared to be feeling well), and the vet came out and said that she had "red spots" on her stomach. She wanted to do blood work right then. She did and it turned out that my dog had thrombocytopenia - an autoimmune disease - her body was distroying the platelets in her blood. The platelets in our blood are what cause the blood to clot. She was put on almost 5 different medicines right then, and I took her home.

I gave her all her medicine as directed and came home from work the next day to find blood from one end of my house to the other (she had vomited blood all over). She went to the ER vet that night and wasn't expected to live. She did make it through the night, and we went back to her regular vet the next morning. She was intolerant to some of the medicines she had been given and had vomited and started bleeding in her stomach. So - the vet had to take her off most of her medicines and treat her with a transfusion, IV fluids, and steroids only for several months. She slowly recovered......but it was a harrowing experience for both of us.

My dogs spots were red and were visible on the part of her stomach that had no hair. That doesn't sound like what your dog has - and your dog may well have nothing serious at all.

Darn - I hate it when we have to go to the vet, but I don't know what else to tell you. I don't run to the vet with every little bruise and scratch and injury, but sometimes we need to be sure nothing serious is wrong.

How long have you noticed these spots. If they are getting smaller or starting to go away, you may not have any real problem after all. Wouldn't that be nice?

Good luck...
Carol Jean

Sounds like a weird spot to get a bruise. I'd go ahead and take her into the vet if I were you. Better safe than sorry. Because of the food switch, it could be a reaction or any number of things really. If it doesn't wash off, and it doesn't go away after a day or so, I'd be ringing up the vet. Good luck.

Could those spots have been on there before and just not noticed because they were covered with hair? I am asking because some Yorkies who have the peibald gene way back might show these as normal skin colorations. All of my partis and Biewers have those spots AND my standard color female, Skylar, who is piebald factored has large dark round or odd-shaped spots on different places on her body..

YEP! that's what it was. She had a vets appointment the fifth, and he said it's just from where her hair used to be (her hair is falling out on her back legs and getting thinner everywhere else) The brown spots are from where the brown hair used to be, and the black is where the black used to be. I also now know what her reasons for hair loss is... she probably has puppy mange = [

He gave her Revolution for that. He said it was less likely allergies because of her age (12 wks.) and it was less likely flea/tick irritation cause her skin is good.