The Spot

Back in February when Ellie got spayed, the vet found a spot on her tummy when he shaved her. It looked like a really angry bug bite. They told me to use Benadryl and Neosporin and keep an eye on it. Over the last couple months, the spot got better slowly. It turned the color of her skin and got smaller. Then this week it quadrupled in size (dime-sized to quarter-sized), turned angry red again, and started swelling.

I took Ellie in today to have the vet take a look. She diagnosed it as a staph skin infection right away. She did a full-body exam and found just that one spot, and looked at it under a blacklight and did a scraping, but thankfully there were no parasites.

Ellie is thrilled about getting peanut butter (disguising antibiotics) for 10 days, but less enthusiastic about the antibacterial wipes I have to use on the spot twice a day. Poor girl. I’m glad we’re finally getting her some medicine and a little irritated the vet who did her surgery didn’t tell me right away it was staph (he did a scraping too) instead of making it sound like it was nothing.

Hopefully she’ll be all better in about two weeks.

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Comment by Heather & Ellie on May 30, 2013 at 2:52pm: Update: The spot didn't respond to antibiotics at all. The vet told me she needed a 10 day dose, but it might take 14 to clear up completely. That was yesterday, and it's as big and ugly as ever (now with scabbing). I called the vet, and they don't know what it might be. I have to take Ellie back in next week. This has befuddled TWO vets now. I think I might insist on a needle biopsy since skin scraping isn't enough.

Comment by Linda on May 17, 2013 at 7:41am: Poor sweetie and poor you. I would be a bit irritated too. Hope she is all better quickly with no repeats.