dogs live to scratch.
My dog seems to spend an inordinate amount of time scratching and no
he doesn’t have fleas. He wakes up and the first thing he does is
have a scratch. He is walking along, its a nice day and lo and behold
its time for scratch. He is also keen about licking, and with a
tongue the size of a large cat, licking is quite an event.
He doesn’t seem to mind when or where, its lick and scratch whenever
the mood takes him. So I usually take the first dozen or so episodes
with good grace, after all he is a dog and all. After that he gets
banished. Its for everyone’s sanity. Otherwise I’d have to get a cat
and the only thing they are good for is cleaning toilets.