I do a manual tick check every night, and tonight I found about 6 red mosquito sized red bumps on his belly and each had a tiny tiny orange speck attached to the center. They were very easy to remove with a tweezer but impossible to see anything about them even with the 2.75 power reading glasses I usually use to get closer looks at things. Tanka was not scratching AT ALL. I recall seeing a couple of these in the past, but not enough bites at once to think it was anything.
I looked it up and the closest info I could find was trombiculosis mites. But there is no itching. And it can't be chiggers, you can't see them, and we have had some serious freezes. But we did have a yard full of dogs the other day when the neighbor let their bitch in heat run free and she crawled through our fence I presume looking for Tanka and brought 3 males with her. Could he have mange mites from them?!?!
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When I used to work at a dog grooming shop...there was a Westie who had tiny bright orange things on his muzzle right next to his nose. They were tiny and the skin looked sorta red there. I guessed it was some kind of fungus. They were so tiny I was the only person able to see them and everyone thought I was crazy, didn't believe me. But I know what I saw, my eyes are good, I can see hairs on the feet of insects...literally.
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I don't know about the mites; but possibly the spots could be dried serous fluid, which can be orangish/reddish/yellowish in color. When it dries it sort of has a crystalline texture. A cluster of bites sounds suspicious though.
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Identifying orange specks on bites
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