Mange: One of the most common and most treatable problems we face
Particularly in countries like Thailand where it is hot and humid pretty much all year round. Skin diseases are extremely common in animals even animals who have loving homes. However, when you are a street or "Soi" dog, these problems normally go untreated and while it doesn't on its own result in death, the constant scratching and nibbling because el dogge is very very itchy results in the breaking of the skin and eventually these self-induced wounds get infected or infested with parasites.
It starts out quite mild and perhaps might not even be noticeable on a long-haired dog but if a dog, even like this fella who still has a pretty high quality coat, isn't treated for the disease it definitely will spread, until it gets out of control and hair loss, scratching, and infection are all but guaranteed.
The reason why it spreads so relentlessly is because mange isn't actually a skin disease, it is a living microscopic parasite group of mites that live and breed in the hair follicles of mammals. This condition would even be possible on humans but tends not to since we tend to bathe.
All animals tend to get affected by these parasites at one point or another, even the dog that might be living in your house right now. The dogs are able to keep the parasites at bay by biting our scratcthing the area, but this of course doesn't work so well for the middle of their backs, which they can not reach. The parasites also will jump from animal to animal and dogs being pack animals and all, this means the spread of the microscopic blood-suckers can happy very rapidly.
The spread of mange can get out of control over the course of many months for a homeless animal and in many situations we encounter dogs that have rather large wounds on their bodies from constant scratching. These wounds get infected by far more dangerous parasites and become infected, even more itchy and deadly.
The good news is that mange is extremely easy to treat and only requires a one-time treatment to protect a dog for 20 weeks or so. In this time all the parasites die and the animal quickly regains their coat and also a much better life free of constant scratching.
When we treat a dog with a topical solution like Bravecto, we only need to monitor them for 24 hours or so after treatment. After this point, the solution can not be washed off and will spread through some sort of chemical magic that we do not pretend to understand but are pleased with the results.
One treatment of Bravecto costs around $20 and while we are trying to source some sort of bulk discount or discount offered to charities such as ours we are not having much luck. Therefore, we would like to ask the dog-loving community out there if they are aware of any programs that would offer bulk order discounts or some other method of obtaining this product (or one similar to it) for a rate a bit lower than $20 per treatment.
We understand these companies need to make money and are hoping to find some sort of middle ground. After all, these are not our personal pets, even though we kind of see them as such.
If you would like to see how you can help out, or simply spread the word, please visit our website at
http://krabianimalwelfare.org
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I haven't ever seen this condition on a dog but perhaps I have just been in places that were fortunate to have really good animal welfare services. I have never lived anywhere that had a stray dog problem so that is probably why. The pets we had growing up were likely treated better than I was so yeah, we were never going to see this.
i have only seen this problem on a dog once and it was on a farm that my uncle owned. We pressured the uncle to do something about it but he had a very different mindset about dogs than we did. It's a work animal he would say. We offered to pay for it and kind of grill him about it to this day.