A good Rat experienced Vet. in Napa, CA. Or nearby there. Sarcoptic mange questions too!?

Doc Salias is good with rats. Manger will not cost that much to treat in a rat, but the basic vet bill will be about 35. Good luck!

We use revolution in collie breeds and collie mixes that we feel may have sarcoptic mange. WE give one dose every two weeks for four treatments. These dogs are still walking around and most of them were treated years ago. Yes these are toxins. If they weren't the mites would not be killed. The ivermectin that your other dog received is a heartworm preventative but in a larger dose. You need to ask yourself, "would my dog be better with the medication or without it?" I think that your dog would want you to try as it is a miserable existence to be scratching and biting all the time. Any other option is to use the lyme-sulfur dips. However that has to be done every three days for at least six weeks and it is a messy, smelly process. Most owners will not follow the process to the end so that treatment usually fails due to a lack of owner compliance. So you need to decide what you feel is best for your dogs. If your dog were mine, he would be treated. I feel that if you could ask your dog his choice to be treated he would say "PLEASE" these darn things are driving me crazy. I haven't gotten any rest for weeks." I find tha t dogs who after having untreated sarcoptes for a long time, will sleep a lot. The mites are driving them so crazy that they don't get to sleep well which opens them up to a ton of issues. Sleep deprivation can lower immunity immensely. While sarcoptes will get on cats, they don't like cats well enough to stay on them when they have a nice dog to feed on.