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Everybody's doing the "chicken paw gnaw"

Jennifer Sandlin
Jan 29, 2025
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Every night before they go to sleep, my dogs Henry Rollins and Jaxon Pawlick do what we have come to affectionately call the "chicken paw gnaw" – that is, they take a couple of minutes to lick and clean and gently gnaw on their paws, which seems to both clean their paws and help them to relax as they dr…

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