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Lucky has a lot of problems because he was a rescue. But, you deal with them because you love them, I guess.
Lucky's got hot spots, too, but he doesn't get them from licking - he just licks them when they hurt. He's got a skin condition that creates sores on his belly (from laying in urine - his prior owners were horrible, horrible people) and he licks those. We try to catch them before he becomes obsessive - we put lotion on them to help with the healing and ease the itching. It's just really hard to get that stuff to stay on his paws.
My posting makes him sound like a terror, or some little pathetic thing. He's really a happy doggie, though! He loves people (minus a few - live-in's mom literally scares the pee right out of him), and all he wants most of the time is to sleep, eat, go potty and be pet.
I'm just glad we got an appointment with his regular doctor - in October we had to go to the vet because he had a growth near his pee-pee (only a fatty cyst) and we got the other doctor in the office. He hated her, and to be truthful I didn't like her, either.
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