My dog eats something in the back yard. I think it might be his own shit.

[Floogeldy]

I don't know what to do.

[Pirate Smile]

1. Well, let him give you kisses all over your face, of course.

:P

[BlueJazz]

4. EEEWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!

Ah..Geez.. Doggie want a Kissy?..... AGGGG!

[iconoclastic cat]

2. So, your dog is a major news organization?

[madrchsod]

3. yup..

needs something in his diet. call the vet for help on what to feed him. pretty disgusting isn`t it?

[Floogeldy]

7. Yea I don't like it

Maybe I should feed him three times a day, instead of two.

[Wcross]

35. Thats the ticket! There would be a better selection that way!

You don't need to increase the feedings, just need to change his diet.

[WilliamPitt]

5. My friend's dog eats moles in the back yard

Do you have moles?

[Must_B_Free]

11. shit moles, apparantly

[Floogeldy]

15. No moles. I have squirrels. My dog might be eating squirrel shit.

Squirrels.

[NYC]

6. Is your dog a Cocker Spaniel?

Have his vet check for diet deficiency.

[pfitz59]

8. Grass?

Dogs eat grass for extra nourishment. natural for them!

[elperromagico]

31. Yeah. My dog ate grass. Of course, he also ate his own vomit...

[Ilsa]

9. I have to ask: Does he have a shit-eating grin? n/t

[beam me up scottie]

10. When my german shepard kept throwing something up and

then eating it again, my dad said it was great-I wouldn't have to feed him anymore!
Seriously, my friend had a dog that also ate his own poop and he bought some stuff from the vet to put in his food that makes it taste bad. It worked but I'm not really sure if you have to add it to his food indefinately or not.

[DBoon]

25. You need to ADD something to dog shit to make it taste bad?

The thought boggles my mind.

[crispini]

12. They ALL eat shit, at least,

all the ones that my parents had ever had. And for heaven's sake don't let them get at the catbox.... mmmMMM, tootsie rolls! :P

One of their dogs once ate a whole pack of Skittles. Multicolored puke -- which he ate -- and then multicolored shit. Ewwww....

[beam me up scottie]

13. eeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww yuk

Another one of my friends has tried to keep her dogs away from the cat's litterbox. If there are no "tootsie rolls" in the box when she goes to scoop, she knows the dogs won't be hungry for dinner.

[RevCheesehead]

19. My brother's dog once ate a whole box of crayons.

She was shittin' rainbows for weeks!

[The empressof all]

23. Funny

When my SO and I combined households we brought together his dog with my cat. It took us about a year to realize that neither of us were scooping the cat box. I thought he was being very meticulous about it. :) :) :)

[crispini]

39. LOL, that's HYSTERICAL. n/t

[bettyellen]

14. OMIGOD This is just like the Sedaris story about his brother...

it's a very surreal little slice of life short story in "Dress Your Family Up In Corduroy and Leather". The punchline is that the brother trained his dog to eat his own shit, it is disturbingly funny, I am not sure if it i a true story.... I think it might be. His family stuff is pretty freaky.

[buddysmellgood]

16. It's called Coprophagia. My neighbor's dog likes to eat my dog's freepers.

It's a great deal for me.
http://www.vetinfo4dogs.com/deatpoop.html
Oh...and Merry Christmas to you too. :)

[MissBrooks]

17. What's his breath smell like?

[lizzieforkerry]

18. Petsmart sells pills that make it taste bad...

Unfortunatlely once some dogs develope a taste you have to give the pills indefinately...at least we do!!

[NAO]

20. Does it take pills to make dog poop taste bad?

Otherwise it's yummy?

This whole subject is in very bad taste, hehe, but it cracks me up.

Once I told my vet my dog was eating poop. He asked me, "well, is he eating his own poop, or other dog's poop?" (ewwwww)

I said, "no, just his own poop".

The vet said, "well, they do that sometimes. It's probably OK. If it bothers you we can give you this powder to sprinkle on his food. It will make his poop taste bad."

Right.

[beam me up scottie]

21. I can't think of anything that would taste bad to a dog.

They eat anything. Just like the only thing that must smell bad to a dog is soap; have you seen (smelt) the things they find to roll on?
Our dog we had growing up used to go down to the beach and roll on dead fish, I don't think he knew why everybody ran away from him when he came home.

[JVS]

22. perhaps

or maybe it is his vomit

[chicagojoe]

24. Seriously...

If your dog is eating its' own crap, add meat tenderizer to its' food. For some reason it works. A vet suggested this and it works.

[DBoon]

26. Doggie instinct

That's one way that the mom dog keeps the canine nursery clean - she eats the poop of her puppies.

Or so I heard - there is some instinctive behavioral basis to this, the dog isn't just doing this to gross you out.

[LostInAnomie]

27. Off topic but...

... If the dog were to eat his own shit and then throw it back up do you think it would taste worse or better?

It is a question that must be answered.

[TahitiNut]

28. Yup. It's called coprophagy, and it's not unusual in many animals.

Including the domestic dog. Some breeds seem to tend more than others, and it's something that often becomes less of a problem as the dog matures.

The standard advice is (1) clean up - remove the opportunity, (2) say 'no' with a yank when walking the dog, (3) make sure the dog's diet is balanced, (4) have the dog checked by a vet for pancreatitus or other problems tha may cause the behavior, and for parasites and other problems that result from that behavior.

FWIW, just as disgusting (imho) is their penchant to regard a used tampon as a snack. It's a bit disconcerting to cleanup the yard and find one dog turd attached to another by a string. (At least it was for me.)


If all else fails, have "Republican" engraved on the dog's collar. :silly:

[RadicalMom]

33. It is indeed common in many animals...most pet stores sell

a few products which are added to regular food to make it taste bad also to theanimal, but they don't make anything to make the practice less disgusting to us. When our collie did it, we cleaned up more quickly, which made a big difference, and she soon forgot about doing it. Bought the powder, but didn't need to use it.

[crispini]

40. bwahahaha!

ok, the tampon thing is Simply Awful -- but too, too funny.

[Pirate Smile]

44. OMG

:wow:

I'm familiar with these doggie antics especially the rearranging of furniture to try to get the kitty litter box to a spot accessible to the cat but out of reach of the dog.

However, the tampon comment still did the jaw drop thingy to me - not that a dog doing it is surprising really.

[pinniped]

29. Do you feed the dog dry food or can ( moist )?

My funny dog used to eat grass and throw it up a few minutes later. It was kind of funny watching her undulating to get the grass + yellow liquid out.

[Piperay]

32. My vet said they eat the grass

to make themselves throw up because their stomach is upset and instinctively they know that they should empty the contents of their stomach and they eat grass on purpose to do that...smart little rascals. :-)

[Pirate Smile]

45. They always throw up after they eat grass.

My dog throws up if he eats an ice cube, snow or ice cold water. If the ice maker ends up dropping some ice on the floor - panic in our house - "get the ice!"

[elperromagico]

30. Don't know what you'll do, but I think I'll write a song based on that.

[radfringe]

34. green beans

my mom's daschund use to do that -- vet told her it was a dietary deficiency and recommended supplements to the food

but in the meantime, he told her to add canned green beans to her food - just drain out the juice and put in 1/4 can. It makes the poopies take really really bad and the dog will stop trying to eat it.

it worked... depending on the size of your dog -- adjust the amount. my mom's dog weighed around 20lbs.

sometimes a few weeks of this is enough to stop the dog and you can discontinue adding the green beans... you'll have to experiment. The supplements did help, but eating poopies had become a habit. my mom's dog stayed on this for over a year before the "habit" was broken.

meanwhile - get the dog checked out for vitamin deficiencies and see if there is a supplement available.

[hippiechick]

36. Chop a small amount of Garlic into its food ...

(too much fresh garlic is toxic to dogs).

... also there are herbal tabs you can get at pet stores to make the poop smell/taste really disgusting to the dog.

Coprophagia is common among dogs, groase as it is.

You dog is probably doing this for one of two reasons: either a behavioral issue (have you been away alot lately?) or its missing nutrients from the dog food on the intake end ...

Also make sure you keep an eye on him/her for worms over the next few weeks, as eating dookie is the #1 canine cause of tapeworms.

Good luck !

:hippie:

[THUNDER HANDS]

37. wow, i used to want a dog

before i clicked this thread.

[TroubleMan]

38. Out of all this I've learned that Coprophagia would make a good name for a

rock group.

[GingerSnaps]

41. It might be Cat Shit

:shrug: :puke: Some dogs eat cat shit :puke:

[0007]

42. Have your dog checked for worms

Most dogs will eat shit!

Also most poodles love fresh cat shit.

[GingerSnaps]

48. My Poodles wouldn't eat dog food let alone poop

My Sheppard mix ate cat poop :puke:

[0007]

49. Some poodles are sneaky little devils when there is a litter box

around for kitty.

[lonestarnot]

43. All dogs eat shit!

Eat worse than shit...Never seen a cat eat shit...have you?

[Buddyblazon]

46. My friends Jack Russel Terrier, Dino, ate a rubber out of the....

trashcan in his room.

My buddy has a party the next day...Dino's running around with a jimmy hangin' out of his ass. To this day...we still give Jason a hard time about f*&%ing his dog...even IF he was practicing safe sex.


Jason works in concert production (as most of us do)...he used to let Dino run around the venue on show days.

Dino has:

Shit on the stage(many times)...was discovered by the lighting tech as he's coming DOWN the ladder from the lighting truss...when he puts his HANDS in the poop tracked up the ladder from the bottom of his shoes.

Pissed on a couple of amplifiers. You should see the look on a punk guitarists face as you inform him that his vintage amp shorted out...cuz the production manager can't resist bringing his ill behaved dog to the venue.

Dragged his tongue across 20 year old carpet that has been up-chucked upon so many numerous times...that the floor covering...doesn't even look like carpet anymore. Just some massive gum covered, greasy, piss and vomit smelling floor covering. In general his tongue never leaves the rug as he sprints up and down the venue for hours...only breaking to shat upon a stage...or urinate upon backline.

And then he wants to give you a kiss.


Sadly...Dino "the runner"...ran away six months ago. Jason's wife is happy. They got another Jack Russell right before Dino disappeared...and she is very well behaved. And J's wife finally told me, "Don't tell Jason...but i'm glad "satan" ran away."

[crispini]

47. That's too freakin funny. Classic! n/t

[skygazer]

50. Best solution is to clean up after him regularly

As many have said, this is not unusual. A change of diet may help also - I've found they are more likely to eat it when you feed fresh meat or canned food than when you feed dry. And there are the additives. But the best way is to remove the temptation - shovel and rake time!

[jellybelly]

51. give him steak

What kind of cheap, nasty food are you feeding your dog for him to choose his own shit over it?:P

and after he takes a dump, pick it up and throw it in the trash so he won't be able to eat it.