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Originally Posted by alphagamzetagam
He only does it when there's salt on the sidewalks from the snow. I'd do the lemon thing, but he already has sores from it (which we have been putting cream on) and I think it would hurt him to rub lemon juice in sores.
We've tried stopping him when he starts licking, distracting him with bones, and we do put booties on his feet when we go out (because the salt hurts, too). We're worried that it's going to become some sort of obsession.
We have to go to the vet next week, anyway. Someone needs his rabies shot!
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This is probably a dumb question, but have you tried washing his paws thoroughly?
My little chihuahua sort of has an obsession of biting his nails. It's really gotten to the point to where a lot of his nails are chipped, and splintering. He'll get tons of things stuck in his nails, pieces of carpet, fabric/thread from a blanket, and it hurts him. You can cut his nails, but he'll just go back to biting them. Its weird because some of his nails don't grow anymore (well he chews them enough that they dont need to be clips) but then the rest still do, and it is hard to clip them.