One of my females has had a spot on her stomach since August or so that is hairless with some puss-type stuff. She used to scratch that spot some with her hind foot, so I thought she had a tick or fleas, as she would scratch other places. I gave her flea/tick medicine and she stopped scratching after just a day or two.

However, that spot (about 2 inches long and an inch wide), has never regrown hair and has progressively gotten uglier. It has gone from just bare pink skin to having some puss around it with the skin getting "crinkled" and dry looking, to now it has a little dried blood, still no hair, and the skin look of a raisin.

The vet has looked at it twice and said some dogs get "hot spots" and said put Bag Balm on it. However, that really hasn't helped. I've tried to lather it with Bag Balm and put a bandage over it with an ace bandage wrapped around her stomach over that to keep the Bag Balm from rubbing off. However, she just pulls the ace bandage off in about 60 seconds.

Anyone seen something like this before? Is it cause for concern (doesn't seem to hurt her when I rub it or anything)? Anything I can do to get it reversed? I don't want it to continue getting any worse.

Thanks in advance for any help.

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sounds like hot spot never used bag balm but blue kote works good an i have a dip recipe that not only kills fleas an tick for a long time but the mange (not red mange that take ivemictin) and hot spots. one bottle of happy jack kennel dip11, a gallon of origanl bleach , and a bottle of dawn dish soap. the soap cuts the oils an dirt on hide an hair of dog to let the bleach an dip start workin. mix it a lil strong use less water than recomended on happy jack bottle . that should work