Hello
This white dog happily running in the yard
Is Yiwol, which means Feburary in Korean
She follows her mom all day
She really likes you right?
Yeah she is always following me
Yiwol looks innocent and full of charms
Seems like she doesn't have any problems
Sit down Yiwol
Good girl~
Hands pls. There too. Kiss pls
Well done Yiwol <3
*hehe*
After acting cute for a while
She flips her tummy to the owner's side
At that moment
It hurts Yiwol, stop!
Yiwol starts acting weird
Why is he acting weird suddenly?
I have no idea..
She bites her legs once in a while
She randomly starts to bite herself
I really don't know what happened
As if she's fighting against her enemy
She bites her back leg so hard
She's totally changed from how she was before
At some point she started to bite her legs
Left scars in her legs here
She bites her scar before the scab is formed
But when the scab is finally formed
She bites it again and the scab falls apart over and over
Yiwol's back leg has been full of scars
as she started to bite herself from a year ago
She often bites her legs giving no time for the scars to be healed
I don't know what to do..
All I can do is patting her sweetly
Mom feeds her to turn her attention
But again, she starts to herself
Unpredictable Yiwol's behavior
She does self-harm even in the middle of the mealtime
Yiwol, stop!
Go have some food
Stop and pls have some food Yiwol..
Jeez you are bleeding
She has a clean set of teeth-marks on her back leg
Why is she only biting her back leg?
Maybe she has problems in her back leg?
Vet : She might suffer orthopedic problems in her back legs
Basic checkups like X-ray examination will be conducted to figure out the problem
If nerves or bones in her back leg are damaged
She could bite her legs out of pain
Vet: The results of a blood test and physical checkup
show that her health is fine
Fortunately, Yiwol's has no physical problems
Then why is she hurting herself?
Vet : In my opinion, she would have been traumatized before
So biting her legs is another way of expressing
how much she's stressed and getting an attention
Continuous stress triggered by trauma
causes Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder symptoms such as repeating certain acts
Maybe Yiwol suffers the disorder?
Owner : Yiwol was abused by her previous owner
I accidentally witnessed Yiwol got beaten up so bad
I tried to stop them
But..
I guess she often was abused when I was absent
I was afraid of Yiwol would end up dying by continuous assaults
Didn't want her to be beaten up anymore
So I decided to move out with her
The owner feels sorry for what happened to Yiwol
and not helping her out quickly
Now, no one's trying to beat her up
But the trauma still teases her till now
Let's analyze her pattern of self-harming
Normally, dogs who shows obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms
behave oddly even when they are alone
But Yiwol doesn't act abnormally when she's alone
It makes it hard to predict which situation Yiwol would do self-harm
Dad is heading out~
The moment he says bye to Yiwol
She suddenly bites herself again
Even when she enjoys her time with the family
She can't stop doing self-harm
Are there any ways to help her out?
Animal expert watches Yiwol's behavior
The expert hands her a bag
And then, Yiwol violently starts to bite her legs
As he puts the bag away from her
Expert : There there, nothing is here now
She relives quickly
Expert : Yiwol is very alerted when she sees things
It shows that she's traumatized with certain things or people approaching her
due to the past experience of her being abused
She's cheerful and friendly in usual
But turns very anxious when people hold things in hands
Such anxiety stimulates her to bite herself
When seeing a toy in hands
or even her dad holding an umbrella
Expert : Severe trauma caused by the abuse in the past
deceives her to think the pain still exists
It often happens to those who were severely abused
usually biting their tail and legs
Yiwol feels fake pain
in whichever situation she think it's dangerous
Any special ways to help Yiwol feeling less anxious are?
These are oils for aroma therapy
which help reducing stress and anxiety
Aroma Therapy using Yiwol's favorite scent will relax her tension
Yiwol enjoys the scent
Add her favorite scent of the oil to water
and sock it in a bandage
Rapping her back leg where she feels fake pain
in the pressure bandage with aroma scent she likes
and massaging the spot help reduce pain
We put the bandage on her back legs
Create an anxious situation..
At this point, she would've bitten her legs
But now, she doesn't!
Instead, she sniffs the bandage
Massaging tight muscles in her back legs
amplifies the effect
Now, the real problem has to be solved is..
Her fear of things being held in human's hand
Expert : Yiwol has the biggest fear in visual perceptions
So if we block her vision
She will use the sense of smell more than usual
The more she smells, the less she'll get stressed
Also, training to make her psychologically relaxed is required
Yiwol resorts to vision to understand the situation
That was why she's anxious even when she's safe
She starts to sniff as soon as her eyes are covered
The training aims to let her percept things through the sense of smell
and accept the smell of things differently
While eating food beside the things she 's greatly feared,
she learns about it by knowing how it smells like
Yiwol learned how the thing smelled like
After seeing the umbrella,
she starts to sniff it
Still seems uncomfortable with it
but she doesn't bite her legs anymore
Good girl~
As the training is repeated
Yiwol slowly gets better
The strange thing is..
she bites herself even when her mom touches her
Expert : When you look at Yiwol now
she isn't feeling comfortable at all
Please turn her around with her back on your side
Expert changes her sitting posture
As the posture changed
Yiwol lies down comfortably
The reason why she kept showing her tummy to you
was not because she liked you
Someone forced her to do so have her obey
Showing her belly isn't for good
But an expression of obedience so that she can avoid any violence
Expert : If you touch her tummy when she flips her tummy
It will remind her of bad memories of being abused
and bites her back legs at the end
Yiwol falls asleep comfortably once in a long time
Owner : This is the first time I've ever seen her sleeping peacefully
Every time I touched her, she looked around being senstive
But now she's sleeping in peace
Mom learns the way of soothing Yiwol's wounded heart
Owner : Yiwol, leave the bad memories behind
and let's have good vibes only
We will live happily ever after together~