Crumbs on the furniture and floor are obvious inducements.
Dog licks everything floors furniture.
They lick everything in sight.
If your vet rules out health problems assume your doggy s obsessive floor licking is a behavioral matter.
If you ve seen this behavior in your dog and wonder what the appeal is we ve laid out some reasons she may be a licker of certain things.
Take your dog to the vet and explain when the licking first began and what area of the body or objects the dog is licking.
Which if you have got an affectionate pup is something they like to do quite often.
Difficult as it is to believe your dog may have a perfectly good reason for licking these surfaces.
If your dog begins excessive licking in old age or at any time you should take your dog to the vet.
Unless you just dropped food there s no normal reason why a dog should regularly lick the carpet or furniture.
Excessive licking is a possible symptom for a number of different treatable medical conditions.
If you see your dog licking the carpet or the couch this is where the behavior tends toward the stereotypical or behaviorally problematic according to dr.
The origins of floor licking may be innocent enough your dog may have started it after meals when there were yummy crumbs on the floor but such purposeful licking isn t an obsessive or compulsive behavior.
Like it is made for licking.
In fact some dogs see the world the same way as we see an ice cream.
Walls floors other pets furniture people you name it they ve taste tested it.
Your first concern is to decide whether your four legged friend s couch carpet and bed licking qualifies as an obsessive or compulsive behavior.