Thank you for joining us on the Pet Doctor Blog. Today, I am going to talk a little bit about mange in dogs. I hear a lot of questions about dog mange and hope to answer those questions here. First, just because your dog has bad looking skin, some hair loss, scratching and things like that does not mean they have mange.
Mange is specific to a mite, which is a bug that actually lives in the skin. There are two types of mange that we deal with: one of them is called demodectic mange or the demodex, which is mange that is usually found in young dogs. The reason being is that younger dogs do not have immune systems as strong as older dogs that can fight this off and so these dogs somewhere around three, maybe four months of age will start getting little hairless patches of skin and eventually we will find a mite there that needs to be treated.
The other type of mange is called sarcoptic mange—it is a lot more serious. It can be seen on dogs of all ages, it is something that is very contagious. It is contagious between pets and it is also contagious to people and it can be very difficult to diagnose.%
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