Eatting hair?

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Hi everyone!
I haven't been on here in awhile, been moving around alot.. At the moment I am in Miss.. Well anyways.. Stu my mini weiner is about 10 months old now and my golden Zoe is 7 years old.. Well the problem is Stu has always ate hair, and I'm always pulling it out of his month. Well in the past month he has started to pull Zoe's hair out of her butt by the top of her tail..Everytime I have seen him do it I correct him and give him something else to chew on or bring him outside (which he has totally got over that fear now, I can't keep him in the house). He has pulled so much hair out of her butt that when I give her a bath, you can really see her skin. The weird thing is she lets him do it like it's nothing.. she will sleep while he does it.
I have tried putting the hot spot on it ( its a spray i got from the feed store that you are suppose to spray on spot that they chew on and it's suppose to make them stop), and he doesn't care, he doesn't like the taste of it, but it doesn't stop him.. He had plenty of toys and stuff to chew on, everything a dog could ask for... He is not nearvous anymore, he get plenty of attention... So can anyone tell me why he might be doing this , or anything else I can do that won't harm them? Is it something to do with that he is becoming an adult and not a puppy anymore? or that he is a male and zoe is a female? Thanks guys for reading..:confused:
 
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I just found out that this kind of behavior is referred to as Pica behavior. Here's an article I found for you. Although the article doesn't mention other hair, some other articles that I read did mention chewing other dog's hair and the solutions were the same. This was just the best article I found. I hope it helps:

Pica Behaviour in the Adult Dog

http://www.usask.ca/wcvm/herdmed/applied-ethology/behaviourproblems/picabeh.html
 

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Nice to see u guys too, I read the article, and think if anything it could be from puppyhood, but I'm not sure because he went to the vet last month (was still eatting her hair), and the vet said that it is nothing more then just a bad habit, and if it causes anything, it would be coughing up hairballs like a cat hehe.. which he had done a few times. He also said he was another client that has the same problem with a mini weiner, the dog pulls the owners cats hair out and the cat like Zoe enjoys it! and has a bald spot on its butt. He is not getting ignored, bored every once in awhile, but not that bad that he has to find stuff to do.. i donno it's weird and out of all the dogs i have seen, I have never seen a dog do that. Thanks for the article though, and ur help!
 

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I just found out that this kind of behavior is referred to as Pica behavior. Here's an article I found for you. Although the article doesn't mention other hair, some other articles that I read did mention chewing other dog's hair and the solutions were the same. This was just the best article I found. I hope it helps:

Pica Behaviour in the Adult Dog

http://www.usask.ca/wcvm/herdmed/applied-ethology/behaviourproblems/picabeh.html
I also found this after reading the article u gave me, it sounds about right except for the throwing up part and getting into the trash (he likes qtips though), Maybe I will get him some different kind of toys.. thanks for the help
http://www.justanswer.com/JA/ASP_A/T_20221/TR/dog-eating-hair.htm
 

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