Dog eating Faeces?

[EquestrianFairy]

Our lurcher pup has started eating dog/horse/fox (any type of pooh he can!) its not only extremely disgusting but worrying as he has a perfectly balanced diet, eats/drinks well and we dont know why he does it?

 

[Bossdog]

Theres an episode on dog borstal (on bbc3 iplayer) this week about a Lab that did that but I think it's quite common for pups, not sure how you stop it though!!

 

[_Acolyte_]

I am surprised he is eating fox poo - mine just want to roll in it all the time

But as far as eating fox/horse is concerned, then I would say the majority of dogs do that (mine certainly do)

A dog eating dog poo is slightly more unusual, my lurcher pup did it, we just made sure we removed temptation out of his way and he grew out of it

 

[PhoebeandOla]

I dont know what to suggest for the fox/horse poo but feed fresh pineapple to the dog whos poo yours is eating.

 

[EquestrianFairy]

Unfortunatly we have 4 dogs so we dont actually know whos hes eating, hes 7 months old and we've had him since he was 4 months old.

We remove it everyday but he is a sneaky little thing and there are times he can get at it, they are out in a big garage during the day when we're at work and during that time any mess that is made he will generally clean up!

Makes my tummy turn! yuk!

 

[PhoebeandOla]

Yeah it is rather disgusting my collie did it for a while when she was younger but appears to have stopped now through feeding pineapple. If you could give it to them all it would work and has done for all the dogs we have known to do. Yours would probably be the exception though and make me look like some sort of internet weirdo lol

 

[CAYLA]

As acolyte suggests....it is perfectly normal....it smells wonderfull to dogs, it's like steak and chips to us

, use a citris collar and squirt it everytime u see him feasting on the sh!t

, it will blast a citris smell in front of his face, or a neutral one, either way it should work

or even cheaper water pistol.

 

[Timmy100]

i thought i was the only person on here with this problem my two yr old rottie loves his poo.. i clean up as soon as they do anything but if i happen to miss him its gone and all i get is the residue in his teeth.. my GSD loves to role in fox poo and eat cat and horse poo i was told that cat poo is like us having a mars bar..I tried the pineapple and my dense rottie just thought it tasted even better even tried a DAP behaviour plug in which aint done jack..they both have balanced diet of purina salmon and rice as my GSD is a working dog and the rottie has a sensitive tum..i would try the spray i tried that too but being a rot he just barked and carried on ha,ha sorry im not much use least you know ur not on your own

 

[GinaB]

My youngest lab bitch used to eat her poo and Tinadogs poo, grew out of that.

Now she just rolls it around by nudging it with her nose instead

 

[friesianfan69]

My 1 yr old german shep does it and my 5 yr old one does too,they share eachothers,its vile