Hi,
I have a 1 1/2 old maltese. He is a male and has been neutered. From the first week we got him he attached to one person (me) and really doesn't want anything to do with anyone else. When I leave he sits by the door and patiently waits and won't move, even if someone else is in the house. He has always had some anxiety but it was manageable. He began compulsive licking. He licks everything (except himself). Our sheets will be wet when we wake up from where he has licked all night long. In addition to his licking, as soon as I lay day down at night or whenever he can get to my hair, he eats it!! No kidding, one night he ate so much of my hair that he actually coughed up a hair ball of my hair!! I have long hair so I don't always realize it when he is eating the bottoms of it. One of his other habits that has gotten worse if the barking. He barks all the time. If my husband gets up to go to the bathroom and comes back he barks and bites him!! My husband even says his name so he knows its him and he still bites him. If we are sitting and my husband reaches over to touch me, he will get bit. He has even resorted to having nervous diarrhea. Last night I reached over to touch him and he bit me, twice!!
We have been to the vet, nothing physical is wrong with him. She gave him prozac. Well, unfortunately, one of the side effects of that is excessive barking and un-controllable urination. Wouldn't you know it, we got both. Ultimately, we had to discontinue that course of treatment. We have tried behavioral modification exercises, homeopathic remedies and nothing works.
We have an 11 year old daughter and I always fear when she has friends over they will get bit as well. So far no one has gotten severely bitten (even though that behavior is completely unacceptable. When we have guests over I have to put him in another room, he will bark the whole time, even though we have reassured him that everything is okay. When he is in an other room he barks non-stop.
Please any recommendation would be helpful.
I have a 1 1/2 old maltese. He is a male and has been neutered. From the first week we got him he attached to one person (me) and really doesn't want anything to do with anyone else. When I leave he sits by the door and patiently waits and won't move, even if someone else is in the house. He has always had some anxiety but it was manageable. He began compulsive licking. He licks everything (except himself). Our sheets will be wet when we wake up from where he has licked all night long. In addition to his licking, as soon as I lay day down at night or whenever he can get to my hair, he eats it!! No kidding, one night he ate so much of my hair that he actually coughed up a hair ball of my hair!! I have long hair so I don't always realize it when he is eating the bottoms of it. One of his other habits that has gotten worse if the barking. He barks all the time. If my husband gets up to go to the bathroom and comes back he barks and bites him!! My husband even says his name so he knows its him and he still bites him. If we are sitting and my husband reaches over to touch me, he will get bit. He has even resorted to having nervous diarrhea. Last night I reached over to touch him and he bit me, twice!!
We have been to the vet, nothing physical is wrong with him. She gave him prozac. Well, unfortunately, one of the side effects of that is excessive barking and un-controllable urination. Wouldn't you know it, we got both. Ultimately, we had to discontinue that course of treatment. We have tried behavioral modification exercises, homeopathic remedies and nothing works.
We have an 11 year old daughter and I always fear when she has friends over they will get bit as well. So far no one has gotten severely bitten (even though that behavior is completely unacceptable. When we have guests over I have to put him in another room, he will bark the whole time, even though we have reassured him that everything is okay. When he is in an other room he barks non-stop.
Please any recommendation would be helpful.
