Last Sunday there was a spot on Carl's neck about the size of a quarter where the hair was all wet and and icky.
We knew from experience (3 experiences, to be exact ) that this was a hot spot.
The first one he ever had we freaked out and took him to the vet, they shaved the hair and gave him a shot of antiobiotics and charged us $80 so the next two he had, we figured out how to cure it ourselves.
So, for this one, we clipped off the hair around the spot with scissors so that it could dry up, we also sprayed it with this anti-bacterial, anti-fungal spray stuff.
It didn't really get much better, in fact the next day there were two hot spots. And in two more days, there were 3 hot spots all together!
So we took him to the vet yesterday and paid another $80 for them to give him a shot of antibiotics and give us a bottle of antibiotics.
The vet said that hot spots are a allergic reaction to pollen. But I've also read that they are caused by tick bites, flea bites, dry flaky skin, moisture, and a number of other things, I don't think anybody really knows for sure.
So now Carl gets spoonfulls of canned food (mmm!) 3 times a day. What he doesn't know is there's medicine in there too, but he eats it so fast that he won't ever find out!
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