Weird skin thing...

Doesn't look like a hot spot and typically dogs will really pester them as they are itchy and the dog licking the area spreads the spot and it gets itchier.

Some dogs will end up with staph on elbows and hocks--tends to look like a beginning callous but an owner I know finally after messing around with it for months had the dog at a different vet (for something entirely unrelated)--that vet looked and said "Hmmmm, looks like he's got some staph going--recommended antibiotics and washing the elbows and hocks with a chlorhexidine shampoo and it finally cleared up--the dog was on Bil-Jac at the time. Recently she sent me a picture of some spots on an elbow and hocks again and I asked her if she'd remembered the first problem. She hadn't and went to the vet who said it looked like staph again--she also wrote and said that she'd put him back on Bil-Jac (she'd changed to something else while he was being treated for staph the first time) and that was it for her, Bil-Jac and that dog--as the combo is clearly not doing well by the dog. The spots are clearing up again on the diet change and antibiotics.

By the way, Beaumont 67--the spot on the eyebrow sounds like demodex and the cream was probably Goodwinol Ointment which is what they give out for isolated spots of demodex on young dogs. I complained once to my vet about the Goodwinol Ointment since it didn't seem to be doing anything for the spot on my dog (his was also on an eyebrow and all the hair had fallen out so he had one rust eyebrow with hair and one pink eyebrow without and his breeder said I'd better get it cleared up because she wasn't going to show a dog with a pink eyebrow....period.

I told the vet that I'd probably could use butter and it would work as well (ie not at all)--my vet replied that Vaseline would work better than butter and it stayed on longer. The expression on my face made him laugh and went on to say that the ointment basically smothered the mites.