Dogs Eating Poop

dasvidana
dasvidana Grand Junction CO Posts: 1,356
edited January 2012 in All Encompassing Trip
Got two dogs, both of whom eat poop. How do I get them to stop this disgusting habit!
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  • DS1119
    DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    Call dibbs and eat it before they can. :P
  • rick1zoo2
    rick1zoo2 between a rock and a dumb place Posts: 12,632
    stop pooping in their bowl
  • conman
    conman Posts: 7,493
    rick1zoo2 wrote:
    stop pooping in their bowl
    :lol:
  • dasvidana
    dasvidana Grand Junction CO Posts: 1,356
    :sick:
    It's nice to be nice to the nice.
  • SatansFuton
    SatansFuton Posts: 5,399
    Next time they do it just film them close up with a wide angle lens, you'll have a gold mine on your hands.

    But seriously, I don't know how to make a dog stop eating poop, I've never had one do that. The only idea that comes to mind would be for you to pour Tabasco sauce on their poop, that would keep them from eating it, but then you'd always be running around pouring Tabasco sauce on dog shit.
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  • Shorty
    Shorty Ontario Posts: 1,160
    The tobasco is a good idea actually - after a few times - they'd stop eating it - and then you would be able to stop running around pouring sauce on their shit.
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  • Mamasan23
    Mamasan23 Posts: 16,390
    My dog does that too - we get tons of geese in our area and he loves to eat their poop. :sick: I just keep an eagle eye on him when I'm walking him and pull him away when he gets close to it.
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  • DS1119
    DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    Maybe they're trying to tell you that they really don't like the food you're buying for them. Kind of like "look at us, we would rather eat shit than what's in our bowl".
  • rick1zoo2
    rick1zoo2 between a rock and a dumb place Posts: 12,632
    how about cleaning up the poop?
  • green mountain man
    green mountain man Posts: 735
    Google CANINE COPROPHAGIA. My young pups all did it and eventually stopped. My adult dogs sometimes get to the livestock area and chow down. Look up coprophagia and this should give you some of the reasons they do this and offer solutions.
  • 12345AGNST1
    12345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    I say let them be. If all they do is eat their own poop you'll never have to feed them again!
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  • JonnyPistachio
    JonnyPistachio Florida Posts: 10,219
    12345AGNST1 wrote:
    I say let them be. If all they do is eat their own poop you'll never have to feed them again!

    :lol:

    oh God, and I am reminded of the movie the Human Centipede. :shock:
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  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    Some great ideas here but tobasco or the bad tasting spray that you can get for stuff around the house that you don't want them to chew on.
  • chelsea48
    chelsea48 Posts: 594
    DewieCox wrote:
    Some great ideas here but tobasco or the bad tasting spray that you can get for stuff around the house that you don't want them to chew on.
    Bitter apple spray i think.
  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    Our little Maddie does that to this day.
    She was an abused rescue dog left hungry in an outside cage for months after being born.
    Ignored with no human bonding.
    She has come a long way but will always show these signs of being a victim
    and acquiring this as a habit.

    What has worked for us is to try and understand why first and accept it to some degree.
    This helped us through.

    I talked with our vet about it ...
    It can be a dietary deficiency or even the opposite... tasty poo. :shock:
    He really didn't help to much as I remember, this 10 years ago now.

    We keep it picked up, older poo being more of a crunchy treat but I think frozen poo
    might be a delicacy here in Georgia... I noticed this just lately ;)

    They are dogs... got to love em and try to understand what its like to be a dog

    Lucy got a rabbit this past weekend and was savoring the gut parts by the time
    we found out ... that was much more disturbing to me...
    bad girl bunny breath she is
  • rollings
    rollings unknown Posts: 7,127
    SatansFuton wrote:
    The only idea that comes to mind would be for you to pour Tabasco sauce on their poop, that would keep them from eating it, but then you'd always be running around pouring Tabasco sauce on dog shit.

    This might work...... however you should also consider the pup who thinks his poop is actually bland and instead APPRECIATES the added pizazz....so do be careful of the possible additional ramifications of the added flavorings. :ugeek:
  • bionicamy
    bionicamy Posts: 425
    Our older dog does this too, also a rescue who seemed to be abused.

    I have read putting meat tenderizer on thier food will some how make the pooh unappealing for them to eat.
    We never got that far.... It just made the food unappealing to them :lol: Go figure :lol:

    Worth a try maybe if you have it in your kitchen.... Perhapse your pup isn't as picky with food.
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  • lcusick
    lcusick Posts: 310
    I have a horse and my dog loves eating horse manure- it's disgusting. I do not think there is anything to do but pull them away from the feces. (yuck)
  • cowboypjfan
    cowboypjfan Posts: 2,453
    We have a little jack Russell/Pug mix that loves to pick out some chocolate sticks from the cats litter box. It's annoying, to say the least!

    We called her the 'Turd Burglar'! :lol:
  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    a switch to a high quality food usually does the trick-saw this a LOT when I worked at the vet clinic.

    Poor quality foods have corn as the first ingredient. Corn is not very digestible, so when he consumes the corn based food, it basically just goes right thru him, and his poop ends up 'smelling' just like his food, so he eats it, thinking it's 'food'.

    A product from your vet called For-Bid is sprinkled on his food, and when he eats it, the product changes the enzymes in the feces, making it highly un-palatable. After a round of the For-Bid, most pups will stop.

    As others have said it can also be a behavior issue...most shelter/abused dogs do this as well.

    Also, please take care of this as soon as possible, if he has worms or any other intestinal diseases, coprophagia will just keep the cycle going, and your dog can transmit these diseases to you...not very pleasant...especially if you have small children i.e. ringworms, roundworms, tapeworms, hookworms, leptospirosis.

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