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As others have stated it may be a dietary deficiency. Training may be the way to go in that you put him on a leash and go out with him when he poos. When he tries to et it, snap the collar and give a command like "leave it". You'll. probably have to this for few days....
That's just sooo wrong! LOLOriginally Posted by Monky
Uh, don't you have a bathroom in your house for that?
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Another cause- and this may or may not explain- for animals eating their own feces, is that poop is a great way for a predator to tell what kinds of prey are in the area and, judging by the freshness, how close to prey they are. Dogs eating their poop can sometimes (not often) be explained that they are either in a new environment, or there are potentially predators nearby and the dog is simply trying to conceal it's presence. This may not make sense, but there is science behind this activity that explains it occasionally. Seeing that the OP lives in Highlands Ranch, I have to ask, did any Asians recently move to your neighborhood?
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We give him high quality food but I have heard that they could be missing something. I'm going to check with his vet to see what they think and if they have any suggestions outside of the pills I'm trying. He's been a shit eater since day one so I'm guessing that he's just wired this way.
^^^^^^^^ gave me a good laugh. My Chessie only eats cow turds, the fresher the better. Ever since she was a puppy when we would go fishing she couldn't walk past a fresh pie with out taking a big bite out of it. Never has stopped. End of the day talk to a vet and go from there. Our vet said there is zero issue with it. But then again she doesn't get close to licking me either after all the things I have seen go in that mouth.
If I look on the bright side the advantage to this is less yard clean up for me. Downside would be that the other night he apparently got more than his fill and barfed up a huge pile of crap on my living room carpet. He got about half back down before I could pull him off of it. I have a pretty strong stomach but I'm not going to lie that one was tough...
Wait until he does that when you have company over...
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My lab also has a thing for goose poop. I broke that habit by following him when he would be approaching the goose poop. Then when he would start to pick it up I would throw a set of keys at him and tell him to leave it. Now when he thinks about going after some I just say leave it and he will keep going.
Some puppies do that . . . never heard of any pill to prevent it. Might be related to a nutritional deficiency, might not be. That is dangerous because it can lead to infestation by parasitic worms as well as other diseases if he eats scat from coons or foxes. Get him a good multivitamin from the vet and change his diet up a bit: no canned food or cheap corn based kibble. Only let him outside on a leash for a few weeks, and if he tries to eat poop smack him on the bottom and tell him NO. Take a stool sample to the vet to test for worms too.
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