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Oct 5, 2009 
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Couple Hours, Love, Pounding Headache, Tylenol, Viagra
Aug 26, 2008 
flecksable_flyer asked:
Flecks is a 9 year old German Shorthaired Pointer. I have had her since she was about 9 months old. She was found as a stray and had 4 years of obedience and agility, and was constantly interactive in our family life. But here’s the catch. She licks her legs… almost constantly. I have tried everything possible I can think of to get her to stop. Short of having her walk around with a cone on her head the rest of her life (she would probably lick that too) I haven’t come up with a solution that has worked. She’s licked of every bit of nasty-tasting stuff I’ve tried with a grimace on her face, but still licked away. Now she has started taking it a step further and has started licking her belly, the couch, my bed sheets, the carpet, the dog bed, just about everything! I’m going nuts just listening to her lick! I can usually get a short reprieve if I yell “Flecks, quit!” in a stage whisper, but I have literally had to hold her face away from her body and waited till her tongue stops in order to get her to stop at times. “Doggy prozac” did not seem to help. Now that she will be retiring as my service dog soon, I don’t know how I will deal with the separation anxiety on top of the licking. The two of us are both going to end up going nuts! Any reasonable suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
She loves rawhide bones and can go through one within a couple hours easily. And then it is back to licking. When we play “attack dog” (lots of vicious growling and hand holding with no actual biting and excited running. She also stops on command…), she will literally stop in the middle to lick her legs. Chew toys and rawhides are not always enough of a distraction.
MARINA
Flecks is a 9 year old German Shorthaired Pointer. I have had her since she was about 9 months old. She was found as a stray and had 4 years of obedience and agility, and was constantly interactive in our family life. But here’s the catch. She licks her legs… almost constantly. I have tried everything possible I can think of to get her to stop. Short of having her walk around with a cone on her head the rest of her life (she would probably lick that too) I haven’t come up with a solution that has worked. She’s licked of every bit of nasty-tasting stuff I’ve tried with a grimace on her face, but still licked away. Now she has started taking it a step further and has started licking her belly, the couch, my bed sheets, the carpet, the dog bed, just about everything! I’m going nuts just listening to her lick! I can usually get a short reprieve if I yell “Flecks, quit!” in a stage whisper, but I have literally had to hold her face away from her body and waited till her tongue stops in order to get her to stop at times. “Doggy prozac” did not seem to help. Now that she will be retiring as my service dog soon, I don’t know how I will deal with the separation anxiety on top of the licking. The two of us are both going to end up going nuts! Any reasonable suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
She loves rawhide bones and can go through one within a couple hours easily. And then it is back to licking. When we play “attack dog” (lots of vicious growling and hand holding with no actual biting and excited running. She also stops on command…), she will literally stop in the middle to lick her legs. Chew toys and rawhides are not always enough of a distraction.
MARINA