{"id":23828,"date":"2022-03-25T11:12:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T11:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/how-do-i-get-my-dog-to-stop-licking-himself\/"},"modified":"2022-03-25T11:12:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T11:12:18","slug":"how-do-i-get-my-dog-to-stop-licking-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/how-do-i-get-my-dog-to-stop-licking-himself\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I get my dog to stop licking himself?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>How do I get my dog to stop licking himself?<\/h2>\n<p><b>Treatment for Your Dog&#8217;s Compulsive Scratching, Licking, and Chewing<\/b><\/p>\n<li>Eliminating parasites. There are a variety of flea and tick products that your veterinarian can recommend.  <\/li>\n<li>Changing foods.  <\/li>\n<li>Using medication.  <\/li>\n<li>Preventing the behavior.  <\/li>\n<li>Addressing anxiety or boredom.<\/li>\n<p>1 Jun 2020<\/p>\n<h2>Should you let your dog lick themselves?<\/h2>\n<p>Dog saliva contains bacteria-killing enzymes. <b>When your dog licks himself, he may be helping to get rid of any dead tissue or keep a wound clean. However, dogs can get carried away with licking to the point where they may reopen closed wounds or cause other kinds of harm.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I get my dog to stop licking himself? Treatment for Your Dog&#8217;s Compulsive Scratching, Licking, and Chewing Eliminating parasites. There are a variety of flea and tick products that your veterinarian can recommend. Changing foods. Using medication. Preventing the behavior. Addressing anxiety or boredom. 1 Jun 2020 Should you let your dog lick&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}