Nail Biting

My dog loves to groom herself. If she's not sleeping or interacting with us, she is usually grooming. She carefully licks each hair on her body and studies each section after she's done. But what everyone gets excited about when they meet her is how she bites her nails. She'll pick up one paw at a time, look it over, and then carefully bite the very tip of each nail. It looks and sounds like she is eating a corn on the cob. It's quite cute, and it amazes many people who stop by, but it becomes much less appealing listening to the careful nail biting for hours on end in the middle of the night. And then there was the one time she got too much of a grip on one of the nails and actually pulled it off. This led to much pain and bleeding but barely deterred her. By the next night, with her one paw bandaged, she continued to carefully bite each of her other nails.