Hi Tracie yes he is a leather back his temps with the mvb are 103-106. Vet did not do a skin culture.
The skin issues all begun with an odd shed. He had two sheds first was his tail and sides, second was his head middle back, belly and legs if I Remeber correctly.
The middle back and head were the main problem areas so I got some shed ease and when we bathed him we gently peeled back the shed on his back, but probably went alittle to far, as a few hrs later we noticed redness and raw skin.
We left him after that, but when he went to the vet for his exam she peeled the rest of the stuck shed off his back. That's when he came home that's when it began healing into this dark black color.
His vet did not do any skin culture but suspected it was a potential infection from pull the shed so gave us the silver sulfadiazine cream to help heal it.
Based on the initial pictures I posted and the most current to me it felt like it has spread but maybe he darked as well because the rest of his body is trying to shed again?
Good news though today he began shedding some of this black skin and it's his regular color underneath only duller like the color he turns before shedding.
The skin issues all begun with an odd shed. He had two sheds first was his tail and sides, second was his head middle back, belly and legs if I Remeber correctly.
The middle back and head were the main problem areas so I got some shed ease and when we bathed him we gently peeled back the shed on his back, but probably went alittle to far, as a few hrs later we noticed redness and raw skin.
We left him after that, but when he went to the vet for his exam she peeled the rest of the stuck shed off his back. That's when he came home that's when it began healing into this dark black color.
His vet did not do any skin culture but suspected it was a potential infection from pull the shed so gave us the silver sulfadiazine cream to help heal it.
Based on the initial pictures I posted and the most current to me it felt like it has spread but maybe he darked as well because the rest of his body is trying to shed again?
Good news though today he began shedding some of this black skin and it's his regular color underneath only duller like the color he turns before shedding.