Hello, I'm hoping someone can help. Sorry this is long.
I have a nearly 3 year old Bichon/shih tzu cross and she seems to have a problem with licking her legs and also scratching the side of her nose and the side of her ears until she bleeds and gets scabs. We had to give her a sponge down this morning as she'd mauled her shoulder so badly there was quite a lot of blood.
She goes to a groomer's regularly so her fur is well looked after but the noise she makes when she scratches is terrible, like a squeal. I'm not sure what the problem is but I think it might be more of an anxiety thing than a skin complaint.
I'm not sure it's separation anxiety as someone is at home with her for most of the day during the week. She's left alone Tuesdays and Wednesday's as I'm at work then but we leave at half 8, I come home for an hour at lunch and then we're back for 6pm. We leave her a treat ball to keep her occupied and leave the radio on. She goes out for two walks a day.
I'm kind of at a loss as to what to do to help her. We had a very good trainer to see her a year ago about her barking, took her to training and agility classes. I don't know what to do to help her anymore.
Has anyone got any advice as to how I can help stop her self harming?
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Smitten1981 · 26/07/2015 16:40
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