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Originally Posted by shawnzeppi  This is one reason: a submissive dog licks those higher up in the pack, and its usually on the mouth. My yorkies love to get me in the face with the behavior, and the little pup will do this to his older sister; the sister does this to her bigger doggy pals we see in the neighborhood. But there is also the constant licking that I doubt is because of this. Instead, I think its a compulsive behavior or because they just plain like the taste. Our first yorkie demonstrated this behavior... he liked whatever exposed flesh he could get at; and would carry on with this for maybe 30 minutes before he got tired of it  . Our current dogs don't do anything like that. |
Ok appeasement behavior is not got anything to do with submissive dogs and or dominate ones. It is actually more likely a dominate dog will do it to show a sud one that all is well.( If we must use those archaic terms at all. As dog will change from sudmissive to dominate depending on the day, time, mood or what ever they are feeling and are not stagnet one or the other ever.)
appeasement behavior is what one dog any dog does to another and it is to stop a fight or an action or to slow down a concern. Then it builds into attention getting behavior.. yippee does mother like it or not what ever the attention type either bad or good and we are off to the races in licking.
It becomes a habit for attention getting and man does it work well.
Actual OCDs are rare and is not something one tosses around like candy.
It is a mental health concern tided up in a great big deal of anxiety disorders and all leading to the need for a dog to be on a strong drugs.
Oh so you know I do live with a yorkie that has diagnosed OCDs and it not pretty so I know that which I am talking about from a professional level as well as a mother level.
If you ignore it it will go away if it OCDs it should only occurs when stressed or bored as a way to calm oneself not another.
Most licking other then self mutilation is attention seeking behavior. What do you do for attention seeking you ignore it, redirect or change it it just a behavior.
JL