I completely understand how hard it is for you to feel helpless against the licking! I adopted my 9 month old yorkie 1 month ago and noticed immediately he was licking licking licking biting licking all of his paws. Broke my heart because he is the hAppiest most loving little guy and could tell he felt an urgency to do this out of discomfort.
After a vet visit, I began giving him hydroxazine which is an antihistamine, to combat the environmental allergies the vet thought was the probably cause. Within 1 day I noticed large improvement and then he eventually completely stopped!
The vet explained to me that this is a common problem for dogs and ESPeCIaLLY yorkies!! Also that if the culprit were food allergies there most likely would be issues with other things like ears and digestive.
I hope this helps! |