eating poo

Bosworth

Bosworth

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yes its a Labrador, hes gorgeous, 23 weeks old and he is house trained, and 99% of the time there are no issues, but occasionally he poos in the garden and before his owner can get to the poo its been eaten. He's tried feeding pineapple for couple of days but that makes no difference. Hes currently on a goo quality kibble, and ive suggested that raw feeding may help as there is little nutrition on a raw fed dogs poo. hes managing the pups outside visits so they are all under strict supervision so any poo can be grabbed quickly before he eats it. But has anyone any suggestions that they have found to work.
 
You can get tablets called stool repel or copranil. They work for some dogs. They are supposed to make the poo taste horrible.
Otherwise watch the dog at all times and as soon as he poos call him away and reward straight away.
Hopefully this may break the habit. It can be a very difficult habit to break in afraid.
 
I regret to say that I have this problem with my 5 year old terrier and discarded poo bags on walks. He will find them in whatever place people think they have hidden them to be lost to the world forever, gleefully rip them open and have a good rummage, usually he carries them a little way, sometimes he buries them, but in general once he has one there is no getting it or him.

As T2 said, I am sure I originally exacerbated the situation by pouncing on him and grabbing the poo bags when this first started. I find completely ignoring him to be the best method and he is now passing them by on occasions without even a sniff.
 
My (revolting but lovable!) 4 year old pug has always eaten his own poo (regularly) and other dogs` poo (often). I have never had a dog which does this before, his diet is good and he is very healthy so I am resigned to having to get to any poo before he does.
 
Bit of a tricky one for me to answer as my dogs are clean in kennels and poo in the garden when I'm there or out on walks so they've never had the opportunity, if that makes sense...my younger one has a penchant for cat poo so I just make a sharp verbal like OI or AH AH to break his attention if I can see him snuffling about or thinking about it and recall and praise or feed for coming back.
But like most things if you're not there at the moment when it happens, there's not much do.
Training a separate 'leave it' command would be my priority so even at a distance, he can stop the dog doing anything daft or dangerous, not just eating poo.
 
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