Ziggy was rescued in August 2020.  His owner had no intention of looking after him, and he was in a terrible state.

After treating countless infectious wounds and his severe Mange, he has made a welcome recovery.

He is an affectionate boy, and gets on with a few other dogs around the caretaker's house, where he likes to hang out.

We gave him the usual mange treatment NexGard and in around 10 days he looked like this.  At the time, we think Ziggy was quite young, around 2-3 years old so he recovered quickly.  He still has recurring skin issues, probably because mange mites really affect the dogs immune system. He is also quite sensitive to touch.

Clearly he had been like that for months – getting worse and worse. Maggots were actually eating him alive.  Ziggy was weak and malnourished so we kept him in quarantine for a while and treated him with vitamin B supplements to help his nervous system.  He was really quite aggressive at first, we couldn’t get near him so had to sedate him to get most of the maggots out.

Now he is really friendly. He still doesn’t like Andrew, who came in the same time as Ziggy. They get into fights from time to time. Here are a couple of video clips of Ziggy before and after his rehabilitation.