Tail biting

Has anyone had their puppy try bite their tail and go crazy because they can't reach their tail. Loki goes round and round and barks and gets all distressed/hyper because he can't reach it. Then we give him his tail and he bites it then let's go. Is this normal

Honestly it is a behavior I would discourage. Distraction is the best thing.

We try but he goes off somewhere else. I think it's for attention because he doesn't do it if any of us are on our own with him

Becomes habit - I am sure you can stop it x

is that an sign of some type of illness?   

or is someone making him chase his tail if so you want stop that straight away

Nope we will hear him like a bark yelp and go and see what he's up to and he's trying to get his tail

Habit - stop it x

Ours does this in front of us maybe twice a week, just gets into a wee frenzy trying to get it lol, never thought anything of it as once he grabs it he let's go straight away & that's the end.

Definitely discourage him from doing it as it can become an obsessive behaviour xx

Habit I am afraid certainly needs to be discouraged, I am sure an exciting toy you could keep specially for this.   

Being a 1st time Mum ( well to a pup anyway ! lol) I wondered why should we discourage it, if it became obsessive is that a bad thing, what's the worst that could happen? Curious.

AussieStaff wrote:Being a 1st time Mum ( well to a pup anyway ! lol) I wondered why should we discourage it, if it became obsessive is that a bad thing, what's the worst that could happen? Curious.

yes I thought all puppy's chase there tail ---