Will People Or Other Dogs Catch Mange From A Street Dog
Hello, there is this street dog that has started coming around and I felt bad and started feeding because I'm an animal lover. But I know it has sarcoptic mange due to the research I've done and really I'm wondering if this dog is even curable. It looks like it has been on the streets for years. It is covered and has a very nasty smell with open bleeding sores. My other outside dogs are already showing symptoms, I'm also worried about me or my kids or my inside dogs catching it. Can you tell me how likely it is for us to catch it and if my inside dogs are at risk. Thank you very much.
Hope Bc Canada
11/23/2014
Dear Chrystal --
perhaps you will be so good and try to contact a rescue organization or person who has experience and enough compassion to help this poor dog.
If your or your dogs' immune system is up to par, you may not catch anything but keep yourselves separate. Meanwhile, dissolve some borax in very warm water and when dissolved, while standing by the sick dog, pour it over the animal. When the borax water dries, the mites will die and that will give him comfort. Wish I were there. But you will certainly find that it is not a big deal and easy to do to help a poor creature that has an afflicted body with a golden soul inside.
Namaste, Om
Mpls., Mn
11/24/2014
Hey Crystal!
Absolutely you, your family, and your pets can catch sarcoptic mange from this stray dog. In your shoes I would bath all the pets showing symptoms in Ted's Mange Remedy. It is critical that you decontaminate your house, so you need to clean and treat all the areas that your pets frequent inside; it may help to put down borax to decontaminate areas.
If you are now feeding this dog, and have some of his trust, can you possibly catch him? I believe he is curable, provided you can bathe him. If putting hands on him regularly is out of the question, I would consider Ivermectin/Ivomec - an oral miticide - in his food. You can purchase Ivomec online.
