Alopecia and Ventral Dermatitis in Husky Puppies

Re: Alopecia and Ventral Dermatitis in Husky Puppies

Tim Cheyne — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 05:42:00 GMT

OOps! Read this heading as HUSH puppies and thought 'Strange'. Oh. well, back to breakfast.

Tim.

Re: Alopecia and Ventral Dermatitis in Husky Puppies

Pete Andrew — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 23:30:56 GMT

Thanks for the thoughts - any more are welcome :-)

I'll check on the milk - the owner is a pretty sensible breeder and I'd imagine she is using Welpi but I shall find out.

Some kind of toxin-induced vasculitis - like this idea. The owner described the bitch having a fould smelling vaginal discharge and the pups then having similarly foul smelling faeces, so maybe they have ingested something. In which case, it should resolve now they are on 100% subsitute milk.... unless it is the milk?!

I'll keep you posted.

Re: Alopecia and Ventral Dermatitis in Husky Puppies

mariette asselbergs — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:59:38 GMT

What milk are you feeding the puppies? In calves on full fat milk you can get alopecia mostly on the back, which disappears when you take them off the milk. Same thing seen when bringing up a bushbuck kid on goatsmilk.

Mariette

Re: Alopecia and Ventral Dermatitis in Husky Puppies

vs0u — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:43:05 GMT

A variation on puppy strangles?

Re: Alopecia and Ventral Dermatitis in Husky Puppies

Utlendigur — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:11:52 GMT

Some sort of vasculitis??? Possibly linked with bacteria/bacterial toxins from the mother?