Obsessive Licking?
So Jesse is back in high gear after getting spayed. I've been noticing she licks her feet a lot so I gave them a good looksies and they look like normal doggy paws to me. What can this mean? Problem, or do I just have an obsessive feet licker on my hands. (She's totally left her stitches alone from spaying, so it doesn't seem like it's a 'this is sore so i'm going to lick it' thing) Any other obsessive feet lickers out there? lol.
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Permalink Reply by Krystal G on
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Moose is obsessed with licking his front paws, and our hands!! I think it's just his thing
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Permalink Reply by Wally, Jessica, and Olive on
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This is one of the funnier quarks I've come to find out. It's almost like a game of tag, lol. Olive will walk by and lick our leg, then frap away into another room... silly.
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Permalink Reply by Ella and Lily on
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Ella licks her feet all the time.. and the couch... and my roommate's feet.. and my hands... and anything else she can get her tongue on.
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Olive licks dang near everything too. She'll lick her paws and then glare at us, "what are you looking at?!", and then go right back to it.
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Permalink Reply by Misti, Guinness and Finnegan on
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Guinness is a paw licker too. He likes to do it in the middle of the night (he sleeps under our bed) and it drives me crazy sometimes. But all I have to do usually is just say his name and he'll stop.
Finn is a foot licker...of human feet. He loves toes.
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Permalink Reply by Rachael on
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So this sounds like a typical corgi thing. Haha. I did some research ( aka googling) And I read that sometimes dogs licking their feet can be a sign of a food allergy. I don't know what the person I got her from was feeding her, but I have her eating Purina Pro Plan shredded blend lamb. It's the sensitive skin and systems one. It's not a terrible but also not a great food. It still has wheat or corn gluten in it, I can't remember which right now. Or I'm crazy. Anyway I think when I get about half a bag left or so I'll start switching her to blue buffalo to see if it helps the licking and itchy skin thing go away. Plus blue is just awesome.
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Permalink Reply by Allison Musick on
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Let me know how you like the food. My Heidi did the paw licking thing for awhile, but I personally think it was boredom in her case, or possibly some kind of way to release energy. I suffered a fractured pelvis in a car accident at that time (about a year and a half ago) and had to spend a lot of time in bed recuperating, so she'd lay with me and didn't get as much exercise/activity as normal. That's about when I noticed her starting to lick her paws. I didn't make a big thing of it, but I'd just tap her nose lightly when she did it and say "Stop licking your paws," and sometimes give her a chew toy instead. After a few (or many?) times of this, she stopped. But I agree, it can also be allergies. I had a Sheltie with horrible allergies that chewed his paws relentlessly. There was a different feeling behind it when he did it - you could tell something was really bothering him. Heidi just seemed nonchalant about it, like a person biting their nails to pass the time. :)
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Permalink Reply by Sammie Esposito on
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Sometimes paw licking and excessive grooming can be due to anxiety. She could just be nervous about getting spayed again.
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Permalink Reply by Butter on
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Butter licks his front paws sometimes. He also likes to lick my legs and toes on occassion. My husband taught him the phrase "no licky licky". The first time I tried it he stopped licking and looked at me, then started licking again. Then I tried it again and he stopped. It sounds funny but it comes in handy.
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Permalink Reply by Tiffany-Rose Perry on
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My corgi is an obsessive feet licker! But not his feet. My feet, my husbands feet... anyones feet! lol We always say he has a foot fetish.
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