This is going to be a bit of a long one. We’ve recently had some issues with Dobby which have caused a lot of worrying and fair few sleepless nights.
Long story short: Dobby had mites and it made him act very irritable and aggressive towards us and Albus. He bit my partner and I to the point of drawing blood which was scary and very out of character for him.
It took us awhile to consider mites as a possibility because at first he wasn’t scratching himself too much, just grooming himself constantly. By the time we were more convinced it was mites the shops weren’t open anymore and we had to wait a full night and morning to be able to get him some treatment. The waiting around without being able to do anything was unbelievably hard as knowing your pets are suffering and you can’t help them is just heartbreaking.
The treatment took a few days to kick in (we treated Albus as well since if Dobby had mites it was likely he had them too - but Albus was still as lovely as ever bless him ❤️) and this morning is the first time in a while where I feel like everything is back to normal which is such a big relief. Hopefully things will stay this way, I can’t even express how worried we have been.
The pictures ⬇️ show Dobby’s fur which seems very sparse and ruffled due to scratching and over-grooming. I was also wearing thick gloves so as not to risk being bitten again.
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