An urgent alert has been put out to dog owners as two cases of Alabama Rot have been confirmed by vets since the start of the year. The condition is a life-threatening disease for dogs with no known cause or cure.
Dog owners have been warned to look out for symptoms, which include a skin lesion or sore, with vomiting, no appetite or tiredness, which will followed by kidney failure. Veterinary specialist Anderson Moores, which confirmed the two cases this year, said the lesion commonly appears on the elbow, knee or paw.
The full name for Alabama Rot is CRGV, cutaneous and renal glomerula vasculopathy and is a rare disease with 287 confirmed cases since 2012 and eight recorded in 2022, including several near Bristol. Anderson Moores, which has spent 10 years researching CRGV, said the effects of the disease were often devastating and fatal.
