We all know that after three months, the dog needs to be taken for rabies vaccination. Rabies is a common disease in border terriers, in addition to some other common diseases, such as skin diseases, so what causes border terriers to suffer from skin diseases? There are mainly these five reasons. I. Infection parasites: parasites are a cause of border terrier, border terrier is relatively large, usually need to take it out to exercise exercise, which will inevitably contact with other dog breeds, as well as play in the grass, the grass fleas, lice and other parasites are very much, so it is easy to be infected with parasites. Second, lack of trace elements: Border Terrier is not very picky about food, but to ensure that its nutrition is balanced, if you give it a long time to eat a single food, it will cause it to lack of certain trace elements, thus causing some skin diseases. Third, infection bacteria, fungus: border terrier like to run, usually if there is trauma, it is easy to infect bacteria and fungus, once infected with bacteria and fungus, it will cause skin diseases, so usually should pay more attention to the hygiene of its living environment, diligently wash the kennel, regular cleaning of its living space, to reduce the infection of bacteria and fungus. Frequent bathing: Bathing is to keep the border terrier’s skin clean, but frequent bathing will destroy its own skin protection layer, reduce the skin’s resistance to the outside world, thus causing skin diseases, so be sure to avoid frequent bathing for the border terrier, 3-4 times a month in summer and 2-3 times a month in winter. V. Damp skin: If the border terrier lives in a place with a humid environment, then it will cause its skin to be damp, and living in such an environment for a long time will cause the border terrier to develop eczema and other skin diseases. These are the five big causes of border terrier skin diseases, and I hope that you can prevent them in advance so that the border terrier can grow up healthy.
