About 2 months ago, I noticed a small balding spot on her left hip, about the size of a pencil eraser. I’ve noticed since then, that her hair seems to be thinning on her belly, left side, and legs. She is red and white, and I’m seeing the black pigmented “spots” of her skin a lot more under the thinning white fur. She is not itchy, no fleas, and has no allergies like some bulldogs are plagued with. She just got done nursing a litter of 7 pups (first litter, now 12 wks old) and had great nutrition throughout pregnancy and lactating.

my dog has been slowly getting bald spots. they range from big to small spots. we took him to the vet and they gave us cream and wipes to clean him daily,as we wipe and cream we find new spots. its pinkish , he doesn't seem to be bothered by it. is it contagious, or dangerous to the dog?

Walter is a one year old yellow lab. About a month ago while brushing him I noticed thinning of hair on his hips on both sides and I could see the pink skin showing through. I thought it was from brushing him, but now I’m started to notice two lines on each side (above the pink area) where it appears he’s actually losing fur. He doesn’t itch, scratch, no infections or allergies. I’m wondering if it’s most like seasonal alopecia or if I should take him to the vet. I should note, Walter sheds a lot. Which I know is normal for a lab but we’ve had two other labs in the past (chocolate labs) and they didn’t shed nearly this bad.

My dog is losing fur, one spot on her back and two on her rear hind area. The fur started getting crusty and has come out in layers. The spot on her back is exposing some skin but she is not itchy or uncomfortable. The skin is pink, but not red or inflamed. I can brush the spots with not discomfort.

We live in South Texas and have had boxers for many years. At age 2 our latest boxer lost his hair in the flanks. We took him to the vet and she diagnosed it as seasonal alopecia and prescribed melatonin at 5 mg per day. It was cured. At age 3 he developed it again. We started again the melatonin regiment. It has NOT worked and he now has loss of hair across both flanks almost to his front legs and a strip over his back at the end of the flanks. We have had a test of his thyroid gland and the T4 was slightly low. The vet has prescribed Soloxine 0.6 mg 2 times per day. This has not worked. We have lost confidence in the vet and are trying some OTC remedies for hair loss and flees, ticks and mites from Happy Jack (Sarcoptic Mange Medicine). Just started it not results yet. What else can we try?

I have a 7 year old shihtuz cross lasa. I noticed her coat condition was changing. She was eating as normal. I went away for 4 weeks on return she had lost hair on both flanks,she does have a scratch hereand there. I checked for fleas, but all is ok, but treated anyway. I took her to the vets, they told me is most possible be season alopecia. I said her breath is smelly, like pooh smell, but he seemed unconcerned. I am wndering if i should ask for blood test to chek things out?

My dog is a yellow lab/american staffordshire mix and he's five years old. For the first time he is losing hair on his flanks that I have been told is seasonal alopecia. We've been exposing him to sunlight more and the amount of hair loss has stopped, though I'm hoping his fur will start to grow back soon!

we have our dog for over fours and when we got him we got told he is a cross bread with two other dogs crossed with a wolf and Alsatian he lost hair all on bottom and back as well as his belly we don't know what to do.

Our 6yr old dog is 25% Boxer, 25% Neapolitan mastiff, and 50% Cane Corso. She loses some fur on flanks and most fur on belly every fall and it grows back every spring. Never seems to bother her in any way.