Thursday, May 24, 2012
HITS THE SPOT
Booker has a hot spot again.
Every summer.
They start with an insect bite or something else that causes an itch. Usually in the high hair areas. The Airedale beard is great for it although this time it is on his cheek.
His looks like this one.
The bite itches, he scratches it, the moisture in the hair at skin level is a perfect medium for the bacteria to grow.
Voila! Hot spot.
We caught this one because we could see it but, still, in one day he had doubled its size.
He is on antibiotics which are easy to give. Just throw them in his kibble. Nothing stops him there.
He has a neat skin spray which he just hates to have applied. One of us sprays, the other one throws his entire weight against Booker's ass as he backs up from the dread spray. The sprayer is occupied with the bottle and shielding his eyes from the spray.
He also gets some benadryl to ease any itching.
Last and worst, he has the cone again. Because he will not leave the spot alone.
So, we take the cone off when he walks or is otherwise occupied. Scratching is a reflex and perhaps not even related to the spot. But the cheek is always included. Especially if it has just been sprayed by the neat and dreaded skin spray.
Based on past experience this will take about a week. We will do fine. And so will Booker.
