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Dog Blog – Why Do Dogs Eat Poop?

Tired of your dogs crappy breath due to eating their poop?

It’s an issue that us humans really don’t understand. All we see is:

- Dog eats

- Dog poops

- Dog eats poop

- Human pukes

- Human yells

- Dog poops again

Before we talk about how to stop your dog from eating it’s feces, let’s first look at why they have the urge to buffet on their own excrement.

One reason a dog may order a “poop de jour” is because they think they are doing a little house keeping. Dogs are naturally very clean animals and will look at eating their poop as a way of cleaning up after themselves.

Another reason a dog may partake in the “poop ala carte” can be because they are not getting enough nutrients from their diet. This can be from not being fed often enough or from poor quality food that is not supplying your dog with the proper amounts of nutrients needed. Instinctively, your dog decides that it didn’t get what it needed the first time it ate it, so why not go for round two. Yes, I know! Disgusting!

The third reason your dog might “hoover it’s own manure” is because of simply being bored out of its mind. A bored dog is a dangerous dog, a ticking time bomb just looking for something to do like… well… eating poo!

So how do you go about changing this behavior when you dog is eating poop?

Limit your dogs exposure to situations where the dog can eat poop. Clean up his play area and den area regularly and there will no loner be the allure of poop in the air to tempt your dog to cheat on its diet.

Do you have any other questions about your dogs behavior? Send your questions to:  scott.weller@shaw.ca