Flies
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| Are the flies attracted to a specific region? Our problem is usually not the obvious rear end unless there is fecal material there. If the dog has mats, the flies can get underneath and start laying eggs in the irritated tissue. That's gross! Then the matted hair has to be shaved off and the maggots washed out and an antiobiotic ointment or spray put over the area. Usually it is the noses that get attacked and sometimes ears, especially if they are prick/upright ears. I've yet to find the perfect nose repellent, next time it will be a Bandaid with something like Vick's Vapor Rub underneath. Vicks by itself gets licked off. Ears...Vicks or Panalog ointment once the biting begins. |
| Some dogs just seem to attract them. Gnats love Chewie. He gets bites and none of the other dogs have a bite. Simon (basset) however attracts FLIES. They bite him on the dome of his head, and even found his little scar line on his back (he had a mass removed over a year ago and has a small scar with no hair) and bit at it until he was bleeding there! He's a house dog, just out with the rest of the dogs one afternoon for a few hours when it was nice out.  I have used horse products on my dogs. Some are regular fly sprays, some are chemical free. Currently I have a product from EQyss that is a botanical product made from marigolds on him. I am hoping it works. There is also a cream that has bug stuff in it if they get bit and get scabby. That happened to the tips of my GSD's ears a few times in the pesty fly months. When they are determined it just takes a little bit of time to really get nasty. And we live on a farm, so we don't have the urban spraying to keep them at bay. |
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