#Coyote with mange skin

#Coyote with mange skin

And, if the cold doesn’t kill them, those secondary bacterial skin infections exacerbated by excessive scratching will. With the loss of their fur, animals affected by mange often freeze to death. Worst of all, mange can be fatal for animals if left untreated. An animal affected by mange can develop secondary bacterial skin infections, too. In burrowing into the animals’ skin to lay their eggs, these mites cause intense irritation and itchiness, scabbing, and hair loss. I learned that this coyote was suffering from what scientists call sarcoptic mange, which is caused by mites who live in the skin of many wild canids.

The experience educated me in the realest ways about what the phrase “it made my skin crawl” truly means.Īfter witnessing this, I had to know more about what I had seen. As I hugged myself to ward away the horror, my fingernails dug into my own skin, scratching at the backs of my arms.

Just the sight of her made my own skin chafe and itch. And, her movements, as she stumbled through a ditch next to a Colorado country road, were lethargic and listless. Her skin, covered with scabs and lesions, had a sickly pink pallor. This writing by Will Falk outlines the harm anticoagulant rodenticides can do to our non human kin and why they must be stopped.īy Will Falk The first time I saw a coyote with mange my heart broke.