New and inventive ideas for preventing licking!

Re: New and inventive ideas for preventing licking!

Emma Purnell — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:14:05 GMT

[quote user="funkyfish"]Poor boy!you have your handsfull there then! Good luck! Hope u get him sorted soon, itchy skin is not fun! :0)

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I know, it is such a shame. He is so happy but just touch him and he is off. Fingers crossed we can get him sorted soon, he is keeping us up at night with it all too!

Re: New and inventive ideas for preventing licking!

funkyfish — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:12:26 GMT

Poor boy!you have your handsfull there then! Good luck! Hope u get him sorted soon, itchy skin is not fun! :0)

Re: New and inventive ideas for preventing licking!

Emma Purnell — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:00:37 GMT

[quote user="funkyfish"]Its usually a symptom of something else, pain, stress, frustration, anxiety. Its usually a behavioural problem and preventing him from licking may just make him redirect to do a worse behaviour. It can be a form of obsessive compulsive disorder. I would take it very seriously and when medical probs have been ruled out then see a behaviourest.

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Thank you

We are currently running tests as it appears to be an atopic skin disease issue, he gets very itchy and redirects the constant itching into self-trauma. He is on mountains of Piriton and a quick steroid course to try and ease the problem until we get a definate cause and can go from there.

Just pricing up and considering if immunotherapy or an Atopica trial are the best first courses of treatment! Hopefully once we make him more comfortable he will stop doing it, if that doesn't work we will go back to behaviourist visits - he has had a number of those for other problems already. Expensive boy considering he isn't insured!

Re: New and inventive ideas for preventing licking!

funkyfish — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:16:17 GMT

Its usually a symptom of something else, pain, stress, frustration, anxiety. Its usually a behavioural problem and preventing him from licking may just make him redirect to do a worse behaviour. It can be a form of obsessive compulsive disorder. I would take it very seriously and when medical probs have been ruled out then see a behaviourest.

Re: New and inventive ideas for preventing licking!

Emma Purnell — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:28:21 GMT

Great idea, but I think I have described the place badly now I look back over - he has tiny spindley legs and it is about an inch up from his foot so I don't think they would work.

He is now starting another on his bum cheek so we are having to go with a short course of steroids alongside his piriton and I have to look into allergy testing/Atopica

Re: New and inventive ideas for preventing licking!

bumble bee — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:29:38 GMT

cut a pair of old tights into shorts then place a piece of melolin over the granuloma & pop the tightshorts over. Bit less bulk than other stuff.

Re: New and inventive ideas for preventing licking!

gemma — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:59:22 GMT

what about putting shorts or boxers on him so he can get to the top of his leg?

Re: New and inventive ideas for preventing licking!

Emma Purnell — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:39:21 GMT

I was worried about them over-sticking to fur, I don't want to hurt him any more than he has himself!

Citrus oil is an idea, I must look for some tomorrow.

Re: New and inventive ideas for preventing licking!

A Little TLC — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:56:01 GMT

Citrus oil?

Re: New and inventive ideas for preventing licking!

Vicky RVN — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:52:34 GMT

I've used the anti lick strips on Jack to stop him bandage chewing. Not sure that I like them to be honest, like you say made my eyes water when first opened. It did fade quite quickly though from what I can remember. Don't know how well they would stick to fur, I stuck it to bandage and they didn't stay very well.