At my wit's end with poop eating dog

[Anonymous]

Have you tried sprinkling their dog food with soy sauce or meat tenderizer? There are people that swear this works. Soy sauce didn't work for us, but meat tenderizer did. Mine will still eat poop every once in a while, but not nearly as much as they used to.

Most of the time dogs eat poop because they are dogs. Dogs do all kinds of weird things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here, so does anyone have any solutions? Is there anything I can put in the food to prevent this? Or something I can do to stop it? I have 2 dogs -- the one who eats poop actually poops 4 times a day and the other poops 2 times a day. I always clean up but sometimes I am picking up one poop and the other dog poops while I am on one side of the yard picking up one poop and I miss it! They are speed poopers to top it off!

Take them out separately.

[Anonymous]

Mine is obsessed with eating the deer poop in our yard. Yuck. He doesn't eat other dog poop just deer. I think it is disgusting and I try to stop him when I see him doing it... Usually when I let him out first thing in the fenced in area. But yes I do think you might be over reacting. It's gross but not a mission of mine to completely stop it. I think that is impossible.

[Anonymous]

Put a muzzle on him.

[Anonymous]

Talk to your vet. I've seen pills at petsmart that you can give to stop your dog from eating feces. Have you googled your question yet? People seem to have a ton of advice.

[Anonymous]

Yes they're dogs. But no one ever speaks of this poop eating when you tell them you're getting a dog. People say they're a laot of work. They tell you worst case scenario you'll have to crate them as long as 2 years before the craziest of them is house trained. But no one says yeah, most of them will eat poop if given the chance. JESUS CHRIST. And PP, really? OP should ask herself why poop eating is disturbing? No, I don't think a mentally healthy, well fed dog should robotically eat its own poop. It is neurotic behavior. I would put a muzzle on the dog or take them out separately and stand ready with a blaster hose the minute it turns around to chow down.

[Anonymous]

Beagle owner here too OP...with same problem, but not as extreme. He eats poop when he can find it whether on walks or in the backyard.

Is your beagle old, by chance? Ours did it as a puppy and we scolded him which sorta worked, but now as a senior dog he is back to it and scolding doesn't work. Sometimes I'll throw down an empty coke can filled with pennies to startle him and that makes him back away from the pile of poop...assuming I'm quick enough to anticipate.

We give him Iams Senior, but not sure if this is the solution. He sitll eats poop, but like I said, just not quite as much as yours.

Our beagle has taken to eating the buried peanuts the squirrels bury (thanks to the neighbor who feeds the squirrels peanuts). Ughhh!

[Anonymous]

OP,

My Pomeranian would eat her own poop every time she had a chance. I started giving the GNC pills called stool NO! from pet smart. It helped a little bit.

Then, I started giving her grounded chicken mixed up in her meal. She NEVER ate poop again. It is a little work but twice a month, I will cook chicken breasts in my crock pot, then I throw them in my processor, separate in meal portions in mini ziploc bags, put them in the freezer and feed my dog with her dog food twice a day.

My dog is small (7 lbs) so each portion is like 2 spoons of grounded chicken. I don't know if she stopped eating poop because now she is well fed (many times, we don't give our dogs the right amount of protein/their dog food sometimes lacks doesn't have enough) or because now, she knows what a good meal tastes like....maybe she just started thinking...fuck this poop! my chicken is coming soon!! yummmm.

[Anonymous]

A coke can filled with pennies! I hope you have good aim. Are you in the mob, btw? Because that sounds like a Gambino family-style murder weapon

[Anonymous]

One of our dogs - a dachsund - alway eats poop, I was thinking about giving her breath mints lol. A friend does that with her dog.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Put a muzzle on him.

This sounds like a great idea. It might be a bit of a hassle, but put one on him evrey time you take him out. It is really hard to eat poop with your mouth covered. Just make sure to take it off when he comes back inside.....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Put a muzzle on him.

+1

[Anonymous]

OP, we have two dogs, and one is a poop eater. We tried switching food, pineapple, pumpkin, and ForBid also, no luck.
What we finally realized is that #2 Dog (the poop eater, lol) is only eating the poop of #1 Dog. She does not eat her own, or that of any random dog on the sidewalk.
#2 was a rescue and #1 is clearly the alpha dog in the relationship. I think #2 is using poop eating as some way of expressing submission to #1? I don't think there's any actual advice in there, as our solution has simply been to let them out at different times and run around the yard with a shovel, but it's another facet of poop eating that hasn't been discussed here.
We have not tried meat tenderizer and may do that. Would a muzzle really work? I feel like she would just continue to lick poop-sicles (which is what they have become in this weather).

[Anonymous]

Our harrier (in the beagle family) loves horse poop. We live on Rock Creek Park so it is a little bit of a problem. It always catches me off guard. When he licks the kids I tell them that it's shit lick. They are disgusted, but it makes me laugh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You have a beagle. End of story.

This. Frickin' beagles, man.

Yup, this sums it up. My dearly departed Beagle used to attempt to bend around to eat the poop as it came of his bum. I kid you not. I had to have the bag ready and fend him off even before it hit the ground!