lavillerose

The body will do odd things sometimes. My mom's big oily poodle gets sebaceous cysts sometimes, and instead of draining normally and closing up, one of them calcified over until it was the size of a pingpong ball and had to be surgically removed. None of his other cysts have ever done that, before or since.

Fluffyspoos

How long are his ear leathers? Do they go far enough to reach the corner of his mouth? Vienna has eaten her ear hair off to the very tip of her ear leather, I'm waiting for the day she bites the ear itself OFF.

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BorderKelpie

I wonder if he could have been bitten by a venomous insect or spider and the tissue necrosed? Years ago, I had a dog that took a brown recluse bite to the face. That got pretty ugly before it finally healed. (and of course, it was my show dog, not one of the working farm dogs)

We'll probably never know for sure what happened, but we can have all kinds of fun thinking up theories. I'm just glad he's ok and he will be able to grow enough hair that it won't show. And, most importantly, that you weren't the one brushing him when it fell off. lol

Give the big guy a huge hug for me.