Demodectic mange?

[Princ3ss]

My 4 month old German Rot/German sheperd has started to lose hair around his eye. I think it might be demodectic mange, but he is always scratching and biting. Does he maybe have another type of mange? Here is some pics of his eyes.

[angelsmama]

My Rott/Hound mix sometimes has her Demodex mange show up, and that is what hers was looking like when she had her first case a puppy. You need to get him to the vet for a skin scrape and treatment before it gets out of control. Pretty baby by the way Here's my girl, haha ignore the eating pic , usually only time I can take pics without her jumping all over me   In 2nd pic, had to show that one to point out her goofy oversized ears  

[sc.trojans]

Yep....looks like demodectic, but given how badly it can rage out of control, you need to get him in and determine asap.  Demodectic by the way is a sign of serious immune suppresion - since we all live with demodecic mites on us every day - humans and dogs - when they get out of control, it is an auto-immune condition and so the immune system should be a focus if your receive a positive diagnosis.

[kathryn]

Your pup is a cutie.  I have a soft spot for rotties but also rottie/shepherds. 

Shiner had demodetic mange when he was a puppy.  He had a bout of it right after he had a respiratory infection and then he had a relapse after coming to live with me.  His was on his legs and rear end.  Definitely a skin scraping would be good to confirm mange and get him treatment.

[+four+leaf+clover+]

Yeah, my irish setter had that when he was young and very sick with some weird, mystery, probably auto-immune type thing.  I was told at the time that this type of mange is what foxes get.  Anyway, there are a couple of different types so it needs to be scraped and looked at under a microscope.  The stuff I had to wash him with was dreadfully smelly and toxic ... I wore long jeans, long shirt, rubber gloves, thick socks & waterproof shoes, safety glasses and a mask!  It was that bad!