Yes, to try to relieve him form this nasty looking skin and mangled fur.

He truly is a superbly nice dog we both think the stupidest we ever had.

He cannot be that stupid since he learned to eat salmon berries off the bush by watching a mother feed them to her child. And taught this trick to Apollo. The one fight he almost got into was simply self defense. He is a holy holy dog and probably not stupid. Just very unusual.