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chocolate lab

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Question
I have a female chocolate lab about 1 yr old..She has sores all over her back, ranging from the size of a tic to the size of a quarter..at first i thought it was a bunch of tics together, i scraped off what ever it was and it appeared to look like I tore off a scab...we cant figure out where these are coming from or are they tics already dig in?

Answer
That's pretty hard to say from here Justin. It could be ticks, it could be mange, it could be ringworm. It could be lice.
What I am getting at is that this dog needs to see a vet asap. The vet should do a skin scraping to determine what is actually going on with your dog. That is the only sure-fire way to know.