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Hi everyone,
I'm new to the forum and I've always been a passive observer until now. Recently Napoleon moved to Madrid (dry climate, hot summers) and I noticed within the first week his lips looked really dry. I put a bit of Snouth Soother on them (great for dry noses, by the way), but I didn't realize the extent of the severity until they started peeling and blistering! I thought it may have to do with the climate, which is a lot drier than where he was before (in the Los Angeles area).
However, the strange part is that his behavior is completely normal: his eating habits and personality are the same. When I touch his lips, he doesn't flinch in pain. I've been putting Neosporin on his lips, and I've been told not to put a "wet" ointment because they don't heal as well, but I don't know how to help him without drying out his lips any further. The drool around the area, when I pull apart his lips are a little stickier, too.
I also just started incorporating Sojos into his meal with his Acana, because he started to refuse dry food alone. But I started feeding him this a week before he left from the US to Spain.
My thoughts are that maybe his lips cracked because we were on the plane and in Madrid, and possibly the live enzymes from Sojos infected his lips? Sorry of that isn't the proper term for the mouth area.
Has anyone else dealt with this? E-mailed my vet back at home, but maybe my fellow Frenchie owners are better
I've been trying to find vets in Madrid, but they're basically all out of town for vacation (European life) and resources like Yelp are tremendously unreliable here.
Any suggestions would be awesome!
Thank you!
I'm new to the forum and I've always been a passive observer until now. Recently Napoleon moved to Madrid (dry climate, hot summers) and I noticed within the first week his lips looked really dry. I put a bit of Snouth Soother on them (great for dry noses, by the way), but I didn't realize the extent of the severity until they started peeling and blistering! I thought it may have to do with the climate, which is a lot drier than where he was before (in the Los Angeles area).
However, the strange part is that his behavior is completely normal: his eating habits and personality are the same. When I touch his lips, he doesn't flinch in pain. I've been putting Neosporin on his lips, and I've been told not to put a "wet" ointment because they don't heal as well, but I don't know how to help him without drying out his lips any further. The drool around the area, when I pull apart his lips are a little stickier, too.
I also just started incorporating Sojos into his meal with his Acana, because he started to refuse dry food alone. But I started feeding him this a week before he left from the US to Spain.
My thoughts are that maybe his lips cracked because we were on the plane and in Madrid, and possibly the live enzymes from Sojos infected his lips? Sorry of that isn't the proper term for the mouth area.
Has anyone else dealt with this? E-mailed my vet back at home, but maybe my fellow Frenchie owners are better
I've been trying to find vets in Madrid, but they're basically all out of town for vacation (European life) and resources like Yelp are tremendously unreliable here.
Any suggestions would be awesome!
Thank you!
