BOT FLY ATTACKS YORKIE

Do you remember Secret? She was a little girl that TMY purchased to potentially show and breed, but she stayed very small so we sold her to a loving woman nearby. I happened to be up to the vets and her mom called while I was there. Secret was very sick and needed to be seen. She had gone in for tests just a couple of days prior and she was showing high liver values and vomiting. She also had some places on her skin that looked like eczema..........After liver shunt was ruled out, she was put on antibiotics and sent home.
A couple of days later while a relative was visiting at their home, they noticed some areas on her sides that looked like very dry skin but now they seems to be swelling, and the wierd thing was......they thought they saw something moving under the skin.................
Upon exam she was found to have Bot fly larvae living under her skin in several places!!!!! The larvae type worms were under her skin moving around!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She had them surgically removed and was sent home with the antibiotic. Doc said he has seen bot larvae in large animals and occasionally in an outside dog....................in fact I personally can remember worming the horses for bots..........but he said he has never seen this in a house dog.
We think we have seen it all...........but beware of the bot fly..........it can attack your yorkie. Holly