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- From: myerse@spot.Colorado.EDU (MYERS ETHELLA ANN)
- Subject: Re: Help! Boredom sores caused by licking - Update
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.181612.28887@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- Sender: Ethella Ann Myers (eam@woolly.ngdc.noaa.gov)
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- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:16:12 GMT
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- I wanted to thank everybody for their help. You've given me
- some good things to try.
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- Shiloh is still licking (obsessively), but he's leaving the
- bandage on, so the sore is healing. He just licks the bandage.
- My vet gave me a topical treatment that was supposed to
- stop the wound from itching. I think that's why Shiloh has
- stopped pulling the bandages off. It's a tiny bottle - I
- think it's what Judith Van Noate recommended. I put a couple
- of drops on each time I change the bandage (about twice a
- day). Smells awful - like garlic, but seems to work.
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- My SO and I had some time at home so we watched him pretty
- carefully to try to understand more the reasons for this
- behavior. To our surprise, he hardly licks at all when he's
- outside in the back yard or in the dog area and he thinks
- we are not home. It's when we are home and together in
- the family room that he really goes at it. He's pretty
- sneaky about it, and knows he's not supposed to be licking
- because he will stop if he thinks I'm watching him.
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- Shiloh is 5 and he and Pref have lived together for over 4
- years, but a lot of things have changed for Shiloh recently.
- We moved to a place that is a LOT different from VA and I now
- work 9-5. I used to have flex hours and took him to work with
- me alot. He also had me all to himself for the six months before
- we moved (Pref and my SO moved in January).
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- I am going to spend more time alone with him and try to
- relieve any stress or jealousy he might have. If that doesn't
- work, my vet mentioned some antidepressant drugs that we could
- try. He said that drugs were a last resort, his own dog
- did not respond to them.
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- Since negative attention-seeking is very possible (when I yell
- at him, at least I'm not petting Pref anymore ), I'm going
- to quit getting mad at him when he licks and try to distract him
- instead. Any other ideas for what I should do when I catch
- him licking??
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- I'm going to ask my vet about feeding him deep ocean fish.
- Shiloh is voting for that option - he loves fish.
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- I will let you know if anything works!
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- Thanks again,
- -Ann
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- Ethella Ann Myers eam@woolly.ngdc.noaa.gov
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- "If cats could talk, they'd say things like "Hey, I don't see the
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