Now more and more people are starting to raise dogs. Once upon a time, dogs might just be the tools for their owners to look after their homes. But now as the status of the dog is getting higher and higher, the pooper scooper also treats them as the little master of the house. If there is any abnormality in the dog, the pooper scooper is probably the most worried.

　　I don’t know if the pooper scooper has ever seen the dog chasing his own tail? Some pooper scoopers think that dogs turn around and bite their own tail is not a big deal, is the dog is bored with their own play, and see a fun. Or the dog may just tail itching, in order to relieve the itching to make the tail biting behavior. So shoveling officers to see the dog biting the tail of this behavior has not seen strange.

                           

In fact, canine self-biting disorder may be the truth, if the shoveler found that the dog frequently chasing their own tail bite and cause skin breakage, then the shoveler should pay attention to, this may be the dog suffers from self-biting disorder. Serious cases may also cause the dog to die.

　So what is canine self-biting?

Canine self-biting is characterized by sick dogs biting themselves on one part of their body, resulting in broken skin and other features, although usually more tail biting is involved. Severe self-biting can be followed by infection and death. This disease has no obvious seasonality, but the incidence is a little higher in spring and fall. When the disease develops, the dog will bite its own tail and turn in circles, and will make “ooh-ooh” noises, and show strong ferocity and aggressiveness.

The pooper scooper can also look at the tip of the dog’s tail to see if there is any hair loss, ulceration, bleeding, or scabbing, and if there is, the pooper scooper should also think about whether the dog is suffering from this disease. Of course, some dogs may also bite their buttocks or belly side, you can see whether the hair in these parts are all mutilated. Individual sick dogs will also bite off the hair of the whole body.

Listen to the editor so, part of the shoveling officer is not a little afraid of their own dog will suffer from this disease. The following small editor will tell you what are the several common causes of canine self-biting syndrome, the pooper scooper can also according to different situations to find the cause of the disease, timely and good preventive work.

　　What are the causes of canine self-biting?

　I. Lack of micronutrients or malnutrition

Trace elements and malnutrition is actually the shoveling officer’s feeding problems. For example, the shoveling officer feeds the dog a single food for a long time, resulting in unbalanced nutrition, which is easy to make the dog lack of micronutrients or malnutrition.

It is important to realize that dogs with micronutrient deficiencies are likely to develop xenophagia, where they will eat odd foods such as rocks and wallpaper, which naturally include tails and hair. By sniffing, they believe that the tail and hair are supplemental trace elements, so they will bite their own tail. Then the shoveler may ask, then why do dogs bite their tails? This is actually that dogs and humans think differently, people experience pain will keep themselves from touching that part, while dogs will bite more and more the more it hurts, and then the vicious cycle continues.

　　And the lack of nutrition is actually the lack of vitamins, especially the lack of vitamin B1 and vitamin B12 in dogs, which may cause dog tail neurodermatitis, and finally lead to dogs suffering from canine self-biting. So the shoveler must pay attention to the nutritional balance when feeding the dog, and can give the dog some food containing trace elements.

    

　　II. Parasites

Dogs will inevitably get infected with some parasites when they play outside, and if mites, lice, and other parasites appear on the dog, it will cause the dog to feel itchy. The main way for parasites to harm the dog is that they will wriggle and crawl inside the dog’s intestines, especially when they are active near the dog’s anus, the dog is able to feel them, thus making self-biting behavior.

For the dog to do deworming is probably also a topic that I often say, the general dog is to be a month for internal and external deworming, if the dog does not often go out, internal and external deworming can be once every three months. Also remind the pooper scooper not to take the dog to some of the more dirty places to prevent infection of parasites.

　Third, nervous dogs habitually bite themselves

You should know that dogs are pack animals, but now the way the city pooper scooper keeps dogs is to keep them at home, and some pooper scoopers are very busy at work and may not take their dogs out once for a long time. So the dogs have changed their habits. And when they are extremely bored, they will find their own fun, and chasing their own tail to bite this kind of morbid way has become their only fun.

Also, the dog is not gentle in its play and is likely to bite its own tail. The pain in the tail stimulates the dog’s nerves even more, making the dog to keep on biting his own tail. Once the dog gets used to this way, then there will be very serious consequences, such as broken tail and bleeding.

So it is recommended that the pooper scooper should spend some time to accompany them in normal times, don’t let them be too lonely. Of course, I also do not recommend that the pooper scooper long-term caged dog, it is best to take them out for a walk every day, of course, the scientific way of feeding is also very important, I hope that the pooper scooper can treat the dog well.