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My dog likes to bite at her feet. I yell at her for it, but she still does it. I am trying to put off getting one of those lamp shades, and those sprays do not work!! What can I do? I am out of ideas.

if you have a high energy dog that might be his/her way of releasing his/her nervous energy. You can try more exercise or more engaging activities with your dog. Dogs like people can develop nervous ticks.

First of all, when you yell at her, you are using frustrated or angry energy. Dog's don't respond to this type of energy. Dogs follow a leader that is calm, assertive, and stable.

When you notice her chewing her feet, step into her space, make a short, sharp sound, and make her move. You have to watch her though, because dogs only have a 3 to 10 second memory, so if you want her to associate your actions with the behavior, you have to catch her and correct her with in this time frame.

Don't yell, and don't say her name, because you don't want to project frustrated energy, and you don't want her to associate her name with a correction. You have show her in a calm and assertive way that chewing her feet is not a behavior that is wanted by you. When you get excited, frustrated, or angry, or even worried about what she is doing with her feet, you are actually encouraging her behavior.

It's because she has allergies, all three of our dogs do, their feet get itchy walking through grass, if you live somewhere hot, it will go away after it has been 110 or over for 3 days, but if not try benydryl, depending on the dogs size for 30lbs, like a corgi or poodle half a tablet, bigger or smaller just adjust the size, they do get drowsie though, if it doesn't seem to clear up, a vet can administer allergy shots, but they're not cheap

stop yelling at her! did you ever think that maybe she has something that a vet needs to look at, or do you just go around yelling at her?