Katybburn82
New Born Pup
My boar Sammy has a cut on his eye. He was a rescue when he was a baby and it was believed he was bitten before rescue. The cut is just above his eye and as a baby it got infected. Before we took him and his bro on this was treated with antibiotics and there was just a tiny scratch left. This was in November.
Unfortunately every time it's nearly healed, he scratches it or his bro nibbles it and each time he takes a bit more skin off. It's now really bad, he's had oral medicine, two different drops and a gel (Maxitrol) but we're running out of ideas. The vet is also at a bit of a loss. The next stage is is to biopsy the area in case something else is going on but we've put this off as we were sure that it just needed to heal without scratching.
Had anyone ideas??
We have even attempted to separate them but even though they could see each other (used C&C cages) they squeaked the place down so only lasted an evening.
Only other thing I can think of is mittens but not sure this will work.
Off to the vet again tomorrow but his last suggestion was a bit extreme so I would like to go with some suggestions. I should also mention he seems fine in himself.
Kath
Unfortunately every time it's nearly healed, he scratches it or his bro nibbles it and each time he takes a bit more skin off. It's now really bad, he's had oral medicine, two different drops and a gel (Maxitrol) but we're running out of ideas. The vet is also at a bit of a loss. The next stage is is to biopsy the area in case something else is going on but we've put this off as we were sure that it just needed to heal without scratching.
Had anyone ideas??
We have even attempted to separate them but even though they could see each other (used C&C cages) they squeaked the place down so only lasted an evening.
Only other thing I can think of is mittens but not sure this will work.
Off to the vet again tomorrow but his last suggestion was a bit extreme so I would like to go with some suggestions. I should also mention he seems fine in himself.
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Kath