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675347 tn?1365460645

Slow hair growth...any ideas anyone?

I took my dog for her Senior blood panel about 6 weeks or more ago. The vet shaved a wide strip of fur from her neck to get the blood sample from her jugular vein (which I have learned is normal practice)
Her tests were all fine. She's a healthy fit dog, though no youngster. But she has no illness and no health issues.
The problem is, the hair doesn't seem to want to grow back! I expected a LITTLE growth by now, maybe a quarter inch or something....but the patch remains bald!

I don't know if anyone has any ideas or suggestions as to why this is happening??
Maybe I'm just being silly. At least she is fit and well, I am just curious, and hope she grows some hair back before winter to help keep her neck warm! We have pretty yucky winters here!
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675347 tn?1365460645
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It 's sweet of you Ghilly, to say that. Course I do. I love my girlie!
The thing is about dogs, they can't talk. They can't tell us what they feel. So it's up to us to do the thinking.
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441382 tn?1452810569
I don't blame you for being concerned.  You wouldn't be a good dogmom if you didn't at least wonder about it.  :)  If more people took care of their dogs the way you take care of yours the dog world would be a much happier place!  

Ghilly
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675347 tn?1365460645
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Thanks Ghilly! That figures! It's just started to cool down a little here, but mostly at night and the days are very sunny and warm yet.

Her bloodwork was wide-spectrum, and included extra things that the vet said were optional, such as screening for Addisons etc. But here was I worrying there might be something somewhere which the bloodwork hadn't picked up.
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441382 tn?1452810569
Ginger, it might be that the weather is warm and she's not getting ready to grow her winter coat yet that's keeping it growing so slowly.  I have had dogs (and cats) that seemed to grow back shaved patches in what seemed like a week, and others seemed like they would NEVER grow back, and then one day suddenly it was growing back like crazy.  As long as her bloodwork and all was normal I wouldn't worry about it, especially since it's still basically warm weather.  My guess is that within a few weeks you'll notice dramatic hair growth because the weather will start to cool off.

Ghilly
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675347 tn?1365460645
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By the way, the rest of her coat is absolutely healthy, shiny, and fine. And her thyroid hormones are in the 'normal' range.
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