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inparticular.ai
Bloodhounds with those deep lip folds and long dragging ears are beautiful dogs, but those same features create little pockets where moisture and debris collect — and that turns into soreness fast. Is your dog already showing signs of irritation in those areas, or are you trying to get ahead of it before it becomes a problem?
Bit of both really. He gets a reddish patch inside one of his lip folds every few weeks and his ear tips sometimes catch on things and bleed a little. I never have the right stuff to hand when it happens.
inparticular.ai
That's a really common pattern with Bloodhounds — the lip fold irritation is usually a mix of moisture and food residue sitting in the crease, and the ear tips catching on brambles or rough ground is almost inevitable given how low they hang. What are you doing for it at the moment when it flares up?
Honestly just dabbing it with a bit of damp cotton wool and hoping for the best. Sometimes I put a tiny bit of Sudocrem on the lip fold but I'm not sure if that's even the right thing to use.
inparticular.ai
The cotton wool is fine for cleaning, but Sudocrem isn't ideal — it's quite occlusive and in a warm fold it can actually trap moisture rather than help it dry out, which is the opposite of what you want. For the lip fold specifically, you need something that cleans, mildly disinfects, and doesn't leave a residue. For the ear tip bleeds, you want something that stops the bleed quickly without stinging and stressing him out.
So what would you actually keep in a kit for him?
inparticular.ai
The one product I'd make sure you always have is Vetericyn Plus Antimicrobial Wound and Skin Care spray. It's a hypochlorous solution — no alcohol, no sting — and it works for both problems you're describing. For the lip fold, you spray it on, let it sit for 30 seconds, then gently pat dry with gauze. For the ear tip bleeds, it cleans the wound and helps prevent infection while you apply a little pressure. It won't sting him, which matters a lot with a dog who's already learned that fold-poking is uncomfortable. Pair it with some non-stick sterile gauze pads and you've got the core of what you need. Everything else — scissors, tick remover, vet wrap — is useful but those two things address your actual problem.
That sounds really straightforward. Is it something I'd use every day as a preventative or only when something's already happening?
inparticular.ai
For the lip fold, if he's getting redness every few weeks, it's worth doing a quick daily wipe with it — just a light spray on a gauze pad, clean the fold, pat dry. That routine alone often stops the cycle. For the ear tips, that's reactive rather than preventative — keep it in the kit for when he's caught himself. The bottle is small enough to go in a jacket pocket on walks, which for a Bloodhound is genuinely useful.
