[nagdu] benson biting his nails

[Ed Meskys]

My second S.E. dog, Gerry (worked 1984-1994) came to me biting his nails. 
His medical report from SE said that he had this habbit, and the trainer 
could not break him of it. Because of it his feet also got chewed on, and 
were sensitive. One winter my wife and I spent a couple days in Boston in 
order to see a special exhibit at the Museum of Science, and he was realy in 
pain from the salt and other chemicals in the slush. When we got into the 
museum, I took him into a stall in a restroom, flushed it two times, and 
then put one foot at a time in the hopper and flushed. When we got home we 
bought him dog boots. Back them they were not standard issue from S.E.

Ed Meskys