ArkRescue
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Okay so seeing Dakota mention a dog that is a poop eater reminded me that I wanted to start this thread so we can share our remedies and our tactics for addressing it.
It is my understanding that many dogs get started eating their own poop and/or the poop of other dogs as puppies who were always around fresh and strong smelling poop. I recall when we had a litter of pups, that I was replacing the newspaper many times a day! Seemed like every time I put down new paper they would poop again immediately LOL. I am also finding that dogs that were not fed well sometimes learned to eat their own poop and/or the poop of others.
Most dogs can be stopped from that habit, but you need to really be on top of keeping the poop out of their sight/smell so they don't have the temptation. There are chewable tablets that you can feed your dog(s) that will reduce their desire to eat the poop. Not sure if it reduces the smell or what? A worse taste than poop? What could possibly taste worse than poop? EWWWW.
Instead of letting the dog run loose in the yard to poop unsupervised, someone needs to be on watch to pick up the poop immediately.
I realize that almost every dog LIKES to eat horse poop, and many dogs eat cat poop, but I don't think we can stop that behavior, and we just need to take steps to keep our dogs away from horse poop and keep our litter boxes away from where the dog(s) can get to them.
It is my understanding that many dogs get started eating their own poop and/or the poop of other dogs as puppies who were always around fresh and strong smelling poop. I recall when we had a litter of pups, that I was replacing the newspaper many times a day! Seemed like every time I put down new paper they would poop again immediately LOL. I am also finding that dogs that were not fed well sometimes learned to eat their own poop and/or the poop of others.
Most dogs can be stopped from that habit, but you need to really be on top of keeping the poop out of their sight/smell so they don't have the temptation. There are chewable tablets that you can feed your dog(s) that will reduce their desire to eat the poop. Not sure if it reduces the smell or what? A worse taste than poop? What could possibly taste worse than poop? EWWWW.
Instead of letting the dog run loose in the yard to poop unsupervised, someone needs to be on watch to pick up the poop immediately.
I realize that almost every dog LIKES to eat horse poop, and many dogs eat cat poop, but I don't think we can stop that behavior, and we just need to take steps to keep our dogs away from horse poop and keep our litter boxes away from where the dog(s) can get to them.