Poor Benson Has A Sore Nose.

[Gayle.]

This morning I noticed Benson's nose had a raw scrape on it and it was a bit swollen, my husband told me he'd been rubbing it through the night.

I'm wondering if he has a mossie bite or something and it's itchy. He's been rubbing it all day....he licks the side of his paw then rubs it across his nose. He now has a raw patch the size of a 10c piece there.

I tried to put some Betadine on it, but he's just gone around and rubbed it off on the drapes. Now he's attacking his nose again with his paw in my bedroom. It's obviously bothering him, but what can I do?

[becks]

I'd try a piriton to ease the itch and a lampshade collar to stop him aggravating the area.

[Gayle.]

We're off to the vet this afternoon. The poor boy has made it worse overnight and it looks horribly sore and unsightly.

[puggy_puggy]

Ouch.

Elizabethan collar to stop him pawing at it. Was in salty water & apply betadine or paw paw or zinc oxide.

[Gayle.]

Turns out it's an allergy, so he has some tablets, some cream and anti-bacterial skin wash. Plus he had an injection to stop the itching temporarily so he doesn't keep pawing at it.

I think he might be allergic to something in the grass at obedience training....he's always very itchy there and it started on Saturday night (we'd been to obedience that morning).

Poor little punkin is very leery of me right now. Every time I go near him he ducks for cover in case I'm going to try and put cream on his nose or stick a tablet down his throat.