Mange?

Dustballs

Dustballs

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I have a couple of ??? What do the early signs of mange look like? Can my dogs catch it from a coyote. The reason I am asking is today I called in and shot a coyote. Ater looking at him I noticed that on the right side of his neck all of the fur was gone. It was only in the one spot and it was down to skin. It looked like he had a collar and it rubbed the hair off. The rest of him had thick full fur. Is this mange or just were he had been rubbing?
 
my dogs wool around mangy coyotes all the time and have never gotten it, but they can. the guys that i know that have dogs that have gotten it say you can get rid of it with ivomec
 
I can tell you all for a fact,"ivermec" will prevent, or kill mange. Nothing to worry about.
There are two types of mange, Scartopic, and Demodectic,
Both are parrisites, and Iveremctin based products will kill or prevent both. Also mange generaly cannot affect a heathy canine. Most dogs have the immune system to fight off the parasite.
 
Any dog is susceptible to sarcoptic mange. It is caused by a mite. The symptoms you see are a result of the irritation the mite causes by burrowing into the host skin during its life cycle. Many mammals can get sarcoptic mange, but each species of animal has a specific species of mite that causes the disease. Ivermectin will cure an infected host. Humans can 'catch' mange from an infected canine. It is not like one sees in canines, but more of a skin irritation. The mites can not thrive on human skin.

Demodectic mange, also known as red mange, is an allergy to normal skin mites found on all canines. It is believed to be an allergy developed at a very young age, and is also hereditary. Stresses to the animals immune system bring about outbreaks of red mange. Because of the nature of red mange, it is not the mange we see in wild canine populations. Ivermectin has no effect on red(demodectic) mange. What treatments there are for red mmange are not very effective, and just seem to alleviate some of the symptoms, but there is no cure.

Maintain
 
Thanks for all the info. I have never seen a coyote with mange in my area. I have seen a few in Kansas. Never did worry about it much until now as I have not used dogs until now.
 
Dust i have had my hounds catch a few that were real bad. 2 in one day. One i have more hair on my head then that coyote did.
The hounds had it in a tube and really had alot of contack with it and not one hound showed any affects from it.

Vargy
 


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