This is one of the reasons why I skipped 5 days without updating my blog as I was busy taking care of this little mutt. After coming back from the grooming salon a week ago, he started to scratch around his mouth area non-stop. At first I though it was just a normal itch or maybe its the ticks, but after it got worse where his mouth, especially his lips got swollen from the heavy super duty scratching, I brought him to the vet. As expected he got infected by some minor skin problems that I couldn’t remember how to pronounce it. The skin disease is a common one but it will be a very lethal one if it manage to develop itself to the next stage. Most probably he got it from the grooming salon itself where I noticed they usually keep him together with other dogs in the same room. Since the Miniature Schnauzer breed has a common weakness that is the high skin sensitivity problem, he may got the infection from the grooming tools used there. They use the same tools to groom all the dogs that are brought in without cleaning it first. The other suspected factor is the shampoo that they used to bathe him. After the check-up, I’m happy that its not a major one for him, we got some Anti-Biotic capsules plus some anti-itch pills and a funnel to strap around his neck to prevent him from scratching more. Up to date today, his skin problem has already showed some good progress. The doctor adviced me to groom the little bugger myself to avoid anymore problems like this. Now this little devil will have his own personal groomer

His medication

The funnel. When I apply this thing on him, he will transform into Ironmanmutt and proceed to destroy more items in the office