
- Red, bumpy rash
- Reddened skin
- Cheyletiella yasguri - These skin mites affect the back of dogs and can cause flaking, scabbing, and itching, but when Cheyletiella mites jump to humans, they affect the arms, trunk, and buttocks
- Demodex canis - The most common mite to affect dogs, lives in the hair follicle of the animal; they are usually harmless unless the immune system is suppressed and they breed out of control
- Otodectes cynotis - These mites, also known as ear mites, are more common in cats than in dogs and tend to be restricted to the ear area
- Sarcoptes scabiei - This variety of mite crawls along the surface of the skin, burrowing into it to lay their eggs; this produces intensely itchy rashes that can affect any area of the skin
- Cheyletiella blakei- Cats
- Cheyletiella parasitivorax- Common rabbits
- Cheyletiella romerolagi- Volcano rabbits
- Cheyletiella strandtmanni- Hares
- Cheyletiella yasguri- Dogs
- Australian Shepherd
- Collie
- German Shepherd
- Old English Sheepdog
- Shetland Sheepdog
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