Replied by Kassandra (Owosso, Michigan) on 08/16/2009
Patti, My dog as well as my parent's dogs used to eat their feces. I still to this day don't know why they did it. We decided to switch their dog food and ever since then, they no longer eat feces. I'm not sure if this is the case with your dogs, but you could give it a try if you wanted. I always thought that my dog ate her feces because the dog food I was feeding her wasn't giving her all of the nutrition she needed, like she couldn't fill up on it or something. I still use the same brand, but I chose food that doesn't have artificial flavors, dyes or preservatives and higher protein. She is a totally different dog. I hope I was of some help to you.Replied by Violet (St. Pete, Fl) on 09/29/2009
Patti, add a spoonful of crushed pineapple or pureed papaya to their dinner to make the stool unpalatable.Replied by Janice (Coloma, Mi) on 10/02/2009
I have a female Lab who is on a healthy raw food diet but when I take her out for a walk in the evening, she still has to eat poop. She is very selective though. She only eats deer poop! I haven't been able to figure it out. She did this when I had her on store bought food also.Replied by Rosemarie (Greenwich, Ct) on 10/10/2009
Hi, I adopted a dog a few years ago and she came with alot of issues. I have been trying to deal with them one at a time and its been a struggle. We just moved and in our back yard I find feces from another animal that is not dog. I noticed one day when I let my dog out that she was eating something and when I looked it was poop! I think it may be deer poop, but not sure. I just wonder if it were like Janice from Coloma. Possibly there is something in what the deer eat that may make it appetizing for dogs like how Lions love to roll around in elephant dung? I make my dog her own food and do not buy store food. Possibly lacking enzymes?Replied by Janice (Toronto, On, Canada) on 10/05/2010
My dog occasionally likes to eat poop, only once her own because of a certain dog food but last week she was rolling her poop, I gave her a bath 3 times last night with AVC and Salt and Baking Soda and Dog Shampoo, bathed her twice since and used an entire bottle of "Odour End" from the Vets which neutralizes the bacteria causing the odor (works great) but smell is still there..... I've been brushing her 3 times daily with cedar, spruce and flower branches and grass..... Someone used vanilla extract for their dog during a skunk episode, doing that tonight with dog shampoo, I hope it's the last bath..... But the Odour End and branches and flowers used as a brush do work best, have a feeling the dog shampoo with Vanilla Extract will help.Replied by Marianne (Johnsburg, Ny) on 01/19/2011
Pouring a little carpet cleaner soap on the poop will stop them. I have 2 7 month old dogs and this was driving me crazy. They both were eating the cat poop outside. This works!Replied by Lucy (Toronto, On, Canada ) on 06/12/2012
Im no expert by any means, but I think its pretty common for any dog to devour deer and rabbit poop, my dogs love it and I cant always catch them when they eat it... Its treats for them like candy... Its just digested grasses and plants which their own bodies cant digest. It may have parasites etc in it though.. So I regularly feed teeny bits of garlic to kill the parasites. If you buy raw Tripe, it has freshly chewed grasses and smells like poop, .. Tremendously healthy for dogs.. Dont buy bleached.. Buy the real, brown stinky tripe... satisfy their craving for digested grasses and has very beneficial enzymes in it.
