[Michael Romanos]

Jane - that is so interesting. One of the last questions I asked my informant was do dogs lick and bite and scratch themselves from stress, habit, boredom - and he never did address this. I may pursue this matter with him and add it to the article - he will probably say no, dogs do not 'mutilate' themselves for these reasons.
Somehow I remenber you previously discussing this so called nervous reaction concerning Duchess and I seem to think that I did some scouting around and found that no vet etc here in NZ would agree with the diagnosis your vet produced.
However, foot licking is very common as a Contact allergy - and there you have the most likely reason for the actions of Duchess etc. Taylor recently had a week of foot licking to the point where he was limping, and it was obviously contact probably with wandering willy. So I gave him a couple of little pink pills to rid the allergy, made sure that he didn't come into contact with anymore ww, and took him to the beach to paddle in salt water. It worked.