[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Tail hair eating
- From: "" <hckryhillgsd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Joan Fox" <campaignersgsd@xxxxxxxxx>, "Showgsd-L@Freelists. Org" <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:18:59 -0600
Some dogs chase and play with their tail when happy, but don't do it any
other time and they have hair on their tails. Others chase their tails
because they have a mental disorder, like OCD. They are obsessed with their
tails, they can only be distracted momentarily and then go back to doing it
again. It seems to be inherited as OCD dogs can produce progeny that share
the same problem. It is not limited to GSD's and it has nothing to do with
boredom. I knew of two littermates that had the same stimuli, where
kenneled next to each other..one had it..the other did not.When the two
puppies were separated, the one with OCD continued to display the problem,
the littermate never did.I also had an acquaintance that had a dog from
import lines. She tried everything to get the dog to stop chasing his tail,
taping, Elizabethan collar, sprays, distraction objects, working him,
nothing helped. Each day, the kennel was covered in blood from his spinning
and chasing his tail and in the process hitting it against the walls of her
kennel. I also witnessed a Doberman who was obsessed with his front foot.
He would use his right front foot, to try to catch the left front foot, in
the process he would spin in a circle. OCD is not a "normal" condition in
humans. A person that picks a blemish on their face until it turns into a
crater, or pulls their hair out and can't stop, or washes their hands to
the point of being raw and can't stop, is not acting within the perimeters
of what we deem "normal"and.neither are these types of dogs.Christine
hckryhillgsd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Steve and Christine Grainger
WWW.HICKORYHILLGSD.COM
> [Original Message]
> From: Joan Fox <campaignersgsd@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: Showgsd-L@Freelists. Org <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 12/20/2007 4:43:48 PM
> Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Tail hair eating
>
> I have a beautiful 1/2 year old girl here who is eating the hair on her
tail
> off.
> No skin problems and the rest of her coat is thick and shiny.
> She loves to chase her tail and catch it and when she does she strips the
> hair off it.
> I put her in with a young male thinking she needed a playmate. She does it
> anyway to entertain him!
>
> I hate to put a plastic collar on her and I bet she could do it anyway as
> she is so agile.
>
> I am thinking about bandaging it but not sure what to use. Any ideas?
Maybe
> something that tastes awful on it?
>
> It would be a good time now as it is cold and not raining.
>
> The only other thing I could do is keep her in the house all the time.
> Any ideas are appreciated... other than sell her to the many that offered
to
> do that in St. Louis.
>
> Joan
>
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