Skin issues in odie

[MyPemCharlie]

Originally Posted by Peggy

I feel I should let you know that $400 is a very low price for a corgi. Even for a dog bought from a reputable breeder who health tests their dogs. Also, a dog with a price this low would be considered a "pet quality" and a reputable breeder requries spay/neuter with that designation.


JMO.
Peggy

I thought $400 seemed really low too but there seems to be regional price differences (supply/demand). On another Corgi forum someone had asked what everyone paid for their Corgi. I saw everything from $200 to $1200. (Less for people who found their Corgi at the local shelter.) Most of the potential show quality dogs were obviously on the higher end.

Here in Texas, the show breeders start around $800 for pet quality with a spay/neuter contract and $1200 and up for a prospective show/breeding quality dog. The horse ranch breeders get about $500-$600. (I didn't look at pet stores of course...but I've heard $1500-$2000...for a potentially sick puppy mill dog. Anyway I'll get off the pet store soap box.)

[Bailey's driver]

There is a huge amount of information on line about this. This link is not bad.

http://www.geocities.com/schlosser44/Demodex.html

It can take a long time to resolve. Mites that live in the hair follicles. Not ticks. The hair growing back is a good sign.

[Peggy]

Originally Posted by MyPemCharlie

Here in Texas, the show breeders start around $800 for pet quality with a spay/neuter contract and $1200 and up for a prospective show/breeding quality dog. The horse ranch breeders get about $500-$600. (I didn't look at pet stores of course...but I've heard $1500-$2000...for a potentially sick puppy mill dog. Anyway I'll get off the pet store soap box.)

What you're seeing is pretty much the average. And yes, there can be variations due to the region of the country.

And everyone needs to remember that these prices are for well bred dogs from reputable breeders. Breeders who are hobby (show) breeders, who do health testing and there are multiples champions in the first three generations of the pedigree.

If you don't have the health testing and they're not requiring you to spay/neuter a pet then you're not dealing with a reputable breeder.

Peggy

[blpipers]

Thanks everyone for the information and comments. I went to the link about the demodex mange and it was very informative. Odie will see his vet on Friday and a new skin scrape will be done.....I will keep everyone posted on how this goes.

[Michael Romanos]

If you judge the quality of a pup on the price you pay, you are going to come a cropper in quite a lot of instances. Firstly in a great many instances all types of breeders find out the 'established' fee and apply that fee no matter what. And then we have the situation where a higher than usual price can be asked for by any breeder for any or no reason. WE have this Santa Claus breeder of Pems where I live wanting $800 for the pups he has bred - that's $200 more than a well known Pem breeder of international repute charges. So you go for the more expensive pup and what do you get - a Santa Claus special - not to say that Santa Claus's pups are not of reasonable quality but they will have been poorly managed and handled by the breeder and sold off at seven or eight weeks instead of nine-eleven weeks.

[LaRogue]

Thanks everyone for the information and comments. I went to the link about the demodex mange and it was very informative. Odie will see his vet on Friday and a new skin scrape will be done.....I will keep everyone posted on how this goes.

How did Odie's skin scraping come out?

[theimagunter]

Ok, I'm gonna look stupid here but what's "reverse Hickup"?
Thelma

[theimagunter]

Harley was from a working farm breeder and we paided $550. for her which I thought was reasonable for a pet quality pup. All we wanted was a happy, healthy puppy and that's what we got. Wouldn't trade her for the world!
Thelma

[glencorgi]

Originally Posted by theimagunter

Ok, I'm gonna look stupid here but what's "reverse Hickup"?
Thelma

Also known as reverse sneezing ... sounds like they might be having an asthma attack. It isn't life threatening, just noisy. What you want to do is get them to swallow. You can hold your hand over their nose and mouth, forcing them to swallow. Squirting water into their mouth works with my Oberon.

Debbie

[LaRogue]

Squirting water into their mouth works with my Oberon.

I wish I would've known about this tip when I had a corgi who was a reverse sneezer. I tried the lightly covering the nose and mouth and it never seemed to be very effective. Passers-by woudl give me the [i]what are you doing to that dog look.[i] He was pretty noisy and scary sounding when he reversed sneezed.

[Peggy]

Originally Posted by LaRogue

I wish I would've known about this tip when I had a corgi who was a reverse sneezer. I tried the lightly covering the nose and mouth and it never seemed to be very effective. Passers-by woudl give me the [i]what are you doing to that dog look.[i] He was pretty noisy and scary sounding when he reversed sneezed.

Ah, it was the "lightly". You need to block off the air so they take a breath from the mouth. So don't cover the nose lightly but cover it completly so they have to breathe through the mouth.

And yes, it sounds horrible and people who don't know what's going on can think the dog is in terrible distress.

Peggy

[LaRogue]

Ah, it was the "lightly". You need to block off the air so they take a breath from the mouth. So don't cover the nose lightly but cover it completly so they have to breathe through the mouth.

I'm going to remember both of the tips, you and Debbie have provided, for future reference. Is reverse sneezing always present from the time they are puppies or can it come about with age? Pip doesn't do it. I'm pretty sure the corgi that did, reversed sneezed from the time he was a puppy, but it was a long time ago and my memory could be faulty on when it started. He didn't do it very often, only when he was VERY excited and usually pulling on his leash.