Neurotic Dog?

:O) Dogs are strange creatures -- that's for sure! We've had two different vets over the past few years and both said that beagles usually display some sort of nervous habit. I guess chewing on a paw is pretty common. I feel bad for her because she actually gets her paw all raw and sore but no matter what we do, she keeps at it. She stands up in the car, too, just like your dog. It's good to know that mine isn't the only oddball dog out there! I'll bet that dogs sometimes look at us and think, "boy, are they weird!"

Man, am I glad to read these posts! Here I was thinking that our pup had a problem, but she sounds exactly like the dogs mentioned here! Ours goes and hides by the garage in a storm (so much so, that when we first moved in to our place, she was only 5 mths old at the time, she went so far down the gap between the garage and the fence, that she got stuck! At the end it was bricked, so the only way to get her out was to cut a hole in the iron wall of the garage, to get the poor terrified thing out!) I feel she has been a little more skittish lately, so I think something may have frightened her more recently. We moved her crate from outside our bedroom into the kitchen/laundry area, but now I can't do a load of wash when she's in bed, as she is afraid of the sound of the washing machine! And as for being in the car! Well we tried a harness to keep her protected, but she always wanted to stand up and get near the window, so she was always getting tangled up. So now whoever isn't driving needs to sit in the back seat with her and try and keep hold of her. Heaven help us if we ever need to take her somewhere with only one of us! And the chewing!! Our girl has gotten into this habit of first thing in the morning when I let her out of her crate, she'll run and jump on the bed and proceed to chew at herself, either her back, her leg, her paw, and then she'll lick it. Then she'll lick my face (practically giving me a tongue bath in the process), and if I have my fluffy dressing gown on - well that gets the nibbling treatment also. She will be quite happy doing that for half an hour or more. I think she just likes the time spent with us, and being a little neurotic, she feels she needs to be doing something all the time. But as soon as I say 'Want some breakfast Shebuh?' she's off the bed and making a beeline for the kitchen. I guess it's just one of those weird things us beagle owners have to get used to.

Wow, a normal dog! Seems like a rare breed!

Wow, yours is REALLY sensitive about his paws! Maggie doesn't like to have her nails clipped, but if I hold her to keep her calm, my husband can clip them. After she's done, she heads over to the cabinet where we keep the dog treats and waits for her cookie!

Thanks for the suggestions... I'll try to exercise her more and see if that helps. She does get a fair amount of activity now and plenty of attention, but maybe with more physicalexertion, she'll calm down a bit.