Stop Eating Your Poop!

[skynyr]

We got a G. Shephard that does that too.    I read that feeding them canned pumpkin works, tastes real good going down for them but not so much after it comes out the other end. Apparently it tastes worse than schit after it's digested. If that don't work start giving it breath mints. 

[huntnfmly]

it shows in that article that one of the causes is imbalanced diet wich is nutritional

[quadrafire]

it shows in that article that one of the causes is imbalanced diet wich is nutritional

Yea, I read that as well. BUT---If they are eating a commercial food it is NOT nutritional ( That is what everyone wants to think). Dogs just do this.

We are taking  a variation of a wild animal  into our home and trying to make them politically correct, to meet our social expectations. Maybe we should poll the wildlife bios and see how much this happens in the wolf/coyote populations.  (doubt it has ever been studied)

PS------I'm glad my dog doesn't!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
she did once, but thought it tasted like Sh!*t, so she didn't do it anymore

[ladyelkslayer]

my dog had the same issue. I talked with my vet, and she said he could be doing it for a number of reasons.  we determined that my pup was doing it as a cleaning habit.  When we got him he was in a 6ftx6ft kennel, so he would poop, and eat it so he didn't have to have it in the kennel.  What kind of "space" does he have, is there enough room for him to play and lay down without coming around the piles? How old is the dog, and did it recently start doing this, or has he always?  it may have something to do with nutrition, but not always.  The forbid and forti flora didn't help break the habit.  The think that worked for us was to scoop poop right after  he laid the pile, and eventually he just quit...

[skagit]

Thanks for the comments everyone.  Helpful and funny.

[runamuk]

Just one more note...in bitches who have whelped some maintain this habit after cleaning up puppies and will in fact go around eating the poop from the other dogs as well.  I know its gross but they are dogs not furry people, sometimes we seem to expect our dogs to act like children rather than domesticated wolves which is really what they are.....unless you own a pug...pretty sure all pugs are aliens sent here to take over the world 

The best solution is to walk on a leash and clean up the are before the dog can and learn to just not watch and dont allow doggy kisses