My dog's skin is pink. What causes it and how can I treat it?
Updated On September 23rd, 2025
Pet's info: Dog | Shih Tzu | Male | unneutered | 2 years old
The color of my dog skin is pinkish what's the reason and what should I do?
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Published on November 14th, 2019
From the picture I cannot really see if normal or not but generally speaking, patches or pink/red skin could be due to an allergy, although it could also be infection or mites. First of all, in order to rule out skin parasites, you will need to treat with a high quality flea treatment, then ask the vet to perform a skin scrape - this might reveal an infection or a mite infestation. If all of those came back negative, the next step is to treat the allergy symptomatically and try to discover the cause of the allergy. Three main type of allergies are usually affecting pets: food allergies, flea and parasite related ones and environmental type (allergens coming from trees, pollens, dust etc etc). Some medications can be given by the vet in order to repair any possible skin lesions (like steroids and antibiotics). Hope this answer was helpful, but please do not hesitate to contact us again on the forum or by requesting a consultation if you have any more questions or to discuss it any further. If this answer was helpful please let us know, this will be used to improve our service!
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Published on April 29th, 2017
The lesions that I am seeing in your pictures appear to be very small. Coupled with the fact that Millie is not currently experiencing any clinical signs of discomfort, I don't necessarily think you need to rush to the veterinarian. However, if the affected areas begin to look irritated, become hot, or spread to other parts of the body, a visit to the vet would be in order. If you are worried about what you are seeing currently, you can still be proactive and go to the vet now. They will be able to run some diagnostic testing on the affected skin / hair to see if they can get to the bottom of things.
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