Scars everywhere in his body,
and his tails got cut
Owner : He keeps harming himself
Biting his tail off
He hurts himself, leaving horrible scars on him
which is unbelievable..
But then,
Baeksang starts spinning around, screaming out loud
He was calm just before
Owner : He keeps spinning in the same spot and hurting himself
He keeps harming himself while spinning in the same spot
What's wrong?
Upon hearing the grandpa's voice
Baeksang comes back his senses
What's up? Stay calm
Don't know why such docile Baeksang starts acting abnormally
It's been a year since I brought him home
He was fine when he was young, but as he grew bigger
he began biting his tail off and spinning over and over.. It drives me crazy
From six months ago,
Baeksang who's been well began harming himself
I can't stop him once it begins.. He might harm people in that case
Look at him, he's doing it again
His abnormal behavior begins again
Baeksang, come here
Once he turns crazy,
he gets to calm himself down after a while
Baeksang harassing himself cruelly..
Looking quite exhausted
Grandpa had no choice but to watch him..
Owner : There's a hospital in the city
I have to drive there, but I don't have a car
And I also can't afford to rent it
A veterinarian hospital is in a few hours away from home
and he's not financially stable..
I prescribed medicine for him twice, but they didn't work
Grandpa went to the hospital and received medicine for the dog
Due to his continuous abnormal behavior, however, the wound didn't heal
Every day, however,
grandpa doesn't forget to sterilize him
As if he knows the grandpa's efforts and affection
Baeksang keeps trying to stay with his grandpa
That evening, when Baeksang has come back to his senses
Grandpa works on the farm
Baeksang who was resting
starts harming himself again
Grandpa hurriedly comes back home
and tries to stop him
He's my only dog.. I don't know what to do
But grandpa can't give him up
To stay with Baeksang more longer,
Decide to get help from an expert
While the specialist's watching him,
Baeksang begins acting abnormally again
What's the cause?
Expert : Dogs living in a rural area and being tied in a 1 meter rope
show compulsive behavior in a certain pattern
In his case, it's pretty severe
The severe compulsive disorder makes them harm themselves physically
Such as biting off their tail or damaging a certain part of their skin
These are all connected to self-harming, compulsive disorder
His abnormal behavior one of the self-harming symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
Such symptoms appear to those living in confined areas
Maybe there's a problem with where he lives?
You see that he walks around in circles
It shows that he's been stressed in a confined area
Being tied up in a short leash,
Baeksang has lived in a small space
The farthest distance he can go
He could only roam within it..
His frustration has shown as self-harming behaviors
One should learn how to control in their lives
For dogs, smelling is one of the ways to do so
But for those who're tied like Baeksang
They're limited to relieve stress and express their instincts
Smelling is a basic instinct of dogs
A failure of satisfying such desire must have triggered the problem
Grandpa hasn't learned how to walk the dog yet or never have walked the dog before
Humans go to school to learn right
For dogs, they need to go out and smell for learning
The time when you think you're late is the earliest
Baeksang finally takes a step out to the world for the first time
Maybe he could set himself free from his confined world while learning new things
Strangely, however, Baeksang walks in the same spot
Dogs usually walk forward while smelling at ease
But Baeksang keeps spinning
All he experienced was spinning in the same spot while being tipped up
That's why he keeps spinning around the same spot right now
He's lived within a diameter
He doesn't know what to do in his first outing
Baeksang needs to learn how to smell
To move forward to a broad world,
learning how to smell is very important
Stand still where the treats are
until he finds them by smelling
As they lure him to find the treats,
Baeksang, slowly and carefully, takes a step
Breathing the smell of the grass deeply,
he even pees to mark
He doesn't act weirdly while strolling
He's doing great, right?
Him walking straight while smelling the grass
indicates that he became comfortably psychologically and relieved stress
Grandma who only knew that dogs should be tied up
feels something new while walking him
PD : How do you feel about walking him?
Nice, slowly!
Grandma is sorry that she couldn't understand him so far
She promises she'll do her best for him
Expert : If he gets to experience a lot, he'll no longer harm himself
The crew decided to help them more
Baeksang is transferred to the hospital and gets his wound treated
Vet : The skin damage is very severe to the point where we have to graft his skin from the back
The results of testing to check if he has any infectious diseases are fine
The damaged skin area is pretty large that it could lead to a severe problem
If he wasn't sterilized or didn't take medicine
it could've been worse than now
but thanks to his grandpa's efforts, the things weren't getting worse
Thanks to the grandpa
a serious infection could be prevented
Surgery began
We could pull the skin from his back to treat the wound without grafting the skin
it went so well that he'll have no problem recovering
As grandpa visits him in a recovery room
the dog stands up and goes near him
Hope he heals mind as his body is healed
Hope he's healthy
Not getting sick anymore? / Yes
While he's recovering
Enlarge the space for him
Wish he roams around the yard freely
Forget about the pain in the past
and live in a wider world