Ellymae, the stuff `wears away into dingy mahogany-yellow. If it's the tar you should be able to rub it between your fingers and still get a whiff of `creosote'. Is there any inflammation of the skin around the margins of the `tarred' area?
Can you lightly pinch up an area of the `waxy' area and then let go: skin integrity good? skin supple and not remaining raised where you pinched it? Has she been dirt bathing?
Dawn dishwashing soap (weak solution with warm water) will remove most of the remaining tar, just do a little each day(skin usually stains and will wear away as cells are replaced).
The tar is a pretty potent antibiotic (kills fungus). If it was applied very thickly over a large area the impermeable nature of the stuff might have caused a problem.
When we were using it on the jakes, their body temperature would cause some melting and release of the more volatilie constituents, there remained some waxy clumps in the folds of the caruncles (yellow dissapeared over about a month).
Could be somethng else, a pic would be helpful. Was the pine tar effective for the picking?
