Prepare to feel terrible about every time you've ever laughed and encouraged a dog that was chasing its tail, because it turns out that is basically like clapping and cheering on someone struggling with OCD, except that chasing a tail is way cuter than turning the lights on and off a set amount of times before leaving a room. A recent study in the journal
PLoS One suggests that
tail chasing could be a symptom of a canine analogue to obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Truly, this is the saddest of all mental illnesses, with the possible exception of the obvious schizophrenia exhibited by every cat, ever, anywhere in the history of time.
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