German Shorthaired Pointer Outta Commission! Update!

[PaulM]

We had a bee sting on our shorthair and it looked nothing like this except the very end of the nose was about the same size. On ours the nose swolled up huge for about 2 hours then went down before the end of the day and the next day you could not tell she had been stung. The vet just gave the dog something like benedryl( which was what i told my wife it needed) It was really funny looking and had us all laughing after we diagnosed at the vet. Last year my shorthair got swiped on the nose by an animal I think. I thought maybe badger. That scrape bled for quite a while and I never figured out what got him. It was a bloody scrape and more towards one side just a 1 inch patch behind the wet part of the nose. I hope she gets better. she looks like my 3 year old GSP's sister. Let me know. PM if you want to get out in the field. Do you hunt west side or east side. My dogs are always getting cut up and put out of the rotation so I know how you feel. Paul

[wildweeds]

That is one of two things......................lupus as suggested above,or  skin disorder( Red mange) that was rampant in shorthairs in the 70's affectionately known as " Red German Crud".Or could be  the dog rooting around in the dirt mousing? My buddies shorthairs get noses like that from rooting around after mice,bacteria in the dirt causes it.Looks pretty sore.Get some " Vetricin" from the feed store and smear on it,Similar to "Schreiners" herbal horse liniment excepth the vetricin doesn't have the cayenne pepper in it.Chances are this is a fungal problem.

[Jackson]

Not saying this is what it is , but ask vet to check into it!!    My lab had a similar thing. the vet sad it was a fungus which is in the ground naturally. Dogs get it from digging their nose in the ground, going after moles, field mice, etc. Lots antibiotics and a lose of hair on the affected areas for my dog.

[sled]

  I remember in high school, a friend had a german shepard that had a nose that looked like that.  They found out she had gotten into anifreeze...  somthing to think about.

[Ridgeratt]

Had a Golden who ended up with Staff infection as a Pup and lost all the hair off his nose. Looks close to that, took a lot of meds and the wife had to wipe him down every day. But he did pull thru and turned out ok but never had the hair grow back.