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please help ID tiny external parasite
My vet doesn't open for another half hour, and in addition to my being
grossed out, I'm curious. I just found on my dog at least 3 dozen tiny parasites. I didn't know that's what they were at first. I was scratching him along the inside of his front leg and felt what seemed like a mild rash--with very small raised bumps. I felt the other leg and found only a couple of the bumps. I looked closely at the leg with only a few bumps and scratched one of them off. (Too small to get between nails to pull off.) It was moving. I showed it to my husband and we both agreed it was black, no bigger than a poppyseed, and we didn't see any legs sticking out anywhere. It was just a shiny, round black dot. Bigger than a flea. Smaller than any tick I've ever seen, and didn't seem the right shape for a tick. Plus--there are literally dozens of them. What in the world is this? Thanks, Cate |
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