Mighty Mites!

Here is a picture of Charlie from today. If you click on it, you can view it as a bigger picture and then see what the skin mites have done to his fur. While it doesn't seem to bother him much, except for the occasional itch, it bothers me a lot. The medication he was on for a month didn't work at all (and was making him goofy), so now he is getting bathed with a special shampoo once a week and gets a special cream put on the "bald" spots every night (it doesn't seem to be helping much either).

He has a follow up visit in two weeks and I have a feeling we are going to have to try the next treatment, special "dips". There is also the possibility that he will have this condition the rest of his life and will be something we will just have to deal with.