Can I sue the pet store that sold me my dog if she has mange?Is it a Hereditary/congenital disease?
Hinojoss.. Mange is a catch-all term for various skin conditions that include scabies or sarcoptic mange in dogs. It is not hereditary / congenital. Sarcoptic mange afflicts dogs, cats, and other animals, including humans. It is caused by the notoedres mite, which burrows into the skin and causes intense itching, irritation, and skin thickening. The animal will scratch or bite at the itchy areas. Humans can get scabies from handling an affected animal, characterized by intense itching, worse at night, inside the arms or on the waist, chest, hands, or wrists. The good news is that this mite cannot reproduce on human skin, so the infestation ends within three weeks unless there is additional exposure. The diagnosis of scabies is made by skin scrapings or a skin biopsy of the patches of baldness. It cannot be made simply by observation, because it resembles other skin conditions like ringworm, demodectic mange, and allergies, which require different treatment. However, locating these mite
