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MizMaRLeysMoM86 · 08-25-2009, 05:05 PM

So I know somewhere on here there is advice on dogs that eat poop.. but I havent found much in my search... soo...

Marley picked up the lovely habit of eating her own turds while I'm A) Not home to pick it up B) sleeping in the middle of the night

I called the vet to see if maybe he had something to put on their food to stop her from doing it. All they have is stuff you put on the poop. It's getting really annoying because I am waking up to sh*tty breath in the mornings and having to wash her muzzle 1 or 2 times a day

If anyone can help me cure her craving for crap please help LoL It's like she picks out her favorite pieces of poop , she doesn't do it all the time. I feed her Taste of the Wild Prairie so I know she isn't lacking nutrients and I give her american made Konas Chips which are top quality. So please help, I hate coming home to a half eaten turd

MizMaRLeysMoM86 · 08-25-2009, 05:06 PM

Wow, I jacked up that title didn't I??

FlDebra · 08-25-2009, 05:28 PM

I used to snicker a little when I read these threads -- no more! Rocky has also taken up this gross habit. None of mine ever did it before, and I couldn't even imagine it -- til now.

I don't know the answer either. Rocky doesn't really eat them so much as play with them. I find bits and pieces as he has obviously drug them around. It seems to happen the same as you say, when I am not here or asleep. I did catch him playing with one so I know it is him. Not sure how a product to sprinkle on the poop is going to help. Instead of sprinkling something on it, I would rather pick it up and flush it.

He is good about using the pads, but seems to suddenly get the idea that he will drag one around and bite it into small pieces. It really spoils puppy kisses when you know he has just had poop in his mouth! I will be interested to read the responses you get. Maybe we can both find something to put an end to this nasty little habit. I almost did not want to admit it! My dear, sweet, loving little guy plays with poop! arrrgggghhhhh!

MizMaRLeysMoM86 · 08-25-2009, 05:35 PM

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Originally Posted by FlDebra

I used to snicker a little when I read these threads -- no more! Rocky has also taken up this gross habit. None of mine ever did it before, and I couldn't even imagine it -- til now.

I don't know the answer either. Rocky doesn't really eat them so much as play with them. I find bits and pieces as he has obviously drug them around. It seems to happen the same as you say, when I am not here or asleep. I did catch him playing with one so I know it is him. Not sure how a product to sprinkle on the poop is going to help. Instead of sprinkling something on it, I would rather pick it up and flush it.

He is good about using the pads, but seems to suddenly get the idea that he will drag one around and bite it into small pieces. It really spoils puppy kisses when you know he has just had poop in his mouth! I will be interested to read the responses you get. Maybe we can both find something to put an end to this nasty little habit. I almost did not want to admit it! My dear, sweet, loving little guy plays with poop! arrrgggghhhhh!

Yeah I always find pieces of poop, as if she played with it and ate some..I find myself picking her up and sniffing before I let her kiss me.

kjc · 08-25-2009, 05:38 PM

Sometimes if you add cottage cheese to their food it helps. A Ceasar Milan episode showed him giving a dog banana to curb the urge. He did say something may be lacking in their diet and to try offering different things that they normally do not get to see what they may be craving. Sometimes the poop may be only partially digested, making it smell more enticing. Adding some yogurt may help with that. Good Luck to you both!!! Let me know what works!!! Re: next post: I think it's Papaya Enzymes

jeanm1963 · 08-25-2009, 05:38 PM

I think there was a post about using Caines Meat Tendorizer just a sprinkle on thier food. Perhaps someone will come along and say that the correct name but I do recall reading it.

Dame · 08-25-2009, 05:48 PM

Buy some pineapple and see if she'll eat any. If so, it is supposed to help make the poop totally unpalatable. As long as she'll eat it, you just need to mix a little in with her food (around a teaspoon full.)

Good luck!

Cindyloohoo · 08-25-2009, 05:55 PM

Coco totally does this. Ive tried what the vet said ( for bid) to sprinkle on her poo and that didn't work. I've tried pineapple. I even put tabasco on her poo and let her smell it. That worked for a little bit, but she still does this. It isn't all the time either. She will actually bark for me when she poos on her pad and if I don't come right out to clean it up (if i'm in another room) she gets quiet. Then I know she's freakin' eating it!!!! It drives me nuts so someone please find a cure. She eats good food too. Taste of the wild salmon.

SnugsColeman · 08-25-2009, 05:55 PM

I know it is gross....my hubby just wrote about this las night and I got in trouble cause I fixed it for pink when he got up for a sec... in ways what we have read in books and saw on shows your pup is eating poop to help you clean up. He/she saw his birth mom do it when they were born and now they see and watch you. They said take them to another room when you clean it up. Also with the cottage cheese we add that to the diet but really does not help ( I am not saying it's wrong...just it did not help us) my mom tried the pineapple thing and her's and that worked for her. Also you can get tablets to place in food to make things...lets say not so nice for them later....I think I saw it a Petco.

MizMaRLeysMoM86 · 08-25-2009, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by SnugsColeman

I know it is gross....my hubby just wrote about this las night and I got in trouble cause I fixed it for pink when he got up for a sec... in ways what we have read in books and saw on shows your pup is eating poop to help you clean up. He/she saw his birth mom do it when they were born and now they see and watch you. They said take them to another room when you clean it up. Also with the cottage cheese we add that to the diet but really does not help ( I am not saying it's wrong...just it did not help us) my mom tried the pineapple thing and her's and that worked for her. Also you can get tablets to place in food to make things...lets say not so nice for them later....I think I saw it a Petco.

Marley is a little over a year old and just started doing this. I am going to have to look up the tablets. I wonder if they ship overseas?

redvalaria · 08-25-2009, 05:59 PM

I fed ALL of my dogs chunks of fresh pineapple. has to be fresh, and I don't mix it in, I give it like a treat. depending on size a few chunks a piece every day for like 10 days. Mine stopped by mid week. I kept it up just to reinforce it.

Try it.

Cindyloohoo · 08-25-2009, 06:04 PM

I used can pineapple so maybe that was the problem. I will try again. Coco is 5 lbs. How much do you think I should give her?

MizMaRLeysMoM86 · 08-25-2009, 06:06 PM

It's hard to get fresh pinapple here... I will see what I can do.

yorkiemomma222 · 08-25-2009, 06:07 PM

Go figure, I have the same problem with Tinky

For example, just about an hour ago, I left Tinky in her xpen for 30 minutes. I come back downstairs to see her poop eaten and chopped up into 5 little pieces. I had to wash her paws and brush her teeth.

I tried feeding pineapple to her. It worked the first day and she stopped playing with it. But she went back to her bad habits.

SnugsColeman · 08-25-2009, 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Cindyloohoo

I used can pineapple so maybe that was the problem. I will try again. Coco is 5 lbs. How much do you think I should give her?

When my mother done it she just gave her a little here and there ( maybe a teaspoon or so) and it was fresh pineapple. After about a week or so of it Molly stopped it...

08-25-2009, 05:05 PM	#1
MizMaRLeysMoM86 Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Misawa AB, Japan Posts: 582	Need so help here So I know somewhere on here there is advice on dogs that eat poop.. but I havent found much in my search... soo... Marley picked up the lovely habit of eating her own turds while I'm A) Not home to pick it up B) sleeping in the middle of the night I called the vet to see if maybe he had something to put on their food to stop her from doing it. All they have is stuff you put on the poop. It's getting really annoying because I am waking up to shtty breath in the mornings and having to wash her muzzle 1 or 2 times a day If anyone can help me cure her craving for crap please help LoL It's like she picks out her favorite pieces of poop , she doesn't do it all the time. I feed her Taste of the Wild Prairie so I know she isn't lacking nutrients and I give her american made Konas Chips which are top quality. So please help, I hate coming home to a half eaten turd __________________ "No man can be condemed for owning a dog.* As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has."

08-25-2009, 05:06 PM	#2
MizMaRLeysMoM86 Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Misawa AB, Japan Posts: 582	Wow, I jacked up that title didn't I?? __________________ *"No man can be condemed for owning a dog.* As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has."

08-25-2009, 05:28 PM	#3
FlDebra Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: FL Posts: 7,651	I used to snicker a little when I read these threads -- no more! Rocky has also taken up this gross habit. None of mine ever did it before, and I couldn't even imagine it -- til now. I don't know the answer either. Rocky doesn't really eat them so much as play with them. I find bits and pieces as he has obviously drug them around. It seems to happen the same as you say, when I am not here or asleep. I did catch him playing with one so I know it is him. Not sure how a product to sprinkle on the poop is going to help. Instead of sprinkling something on it, I would rather pick it up and flush it. He is good about using the pads, but seems to suddenly get the idea that he will drag one around and bite it into small pieces. It really spoils puppy kisses when you know he has just had poop in his mouth! I will be interested to read the responses you get. Maybe we can both find something to put an end to this nasty little habit. I almost did not want to admit it! My dear, sweet, loving little guy plays with poop! arrrgggghhhhh! __________________ FlDebra and her ABCs Annie, Ben, Candy Promoting Healthy Breeding to the AKC Yorkshire Terrier Standard

08-25-2009, 05:38 PM	#5
kjc I♥PeekTinkySaph&Finny Donating Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Baltimore, Maryland Posts: 18,866	Poop Haters Unite!!! Sometimes if you add cottage cheese to their food it helps. A Ceasar Milan episode showed him giving a dog banana to curb the urge. He did say something may be lacking in their diet and to try offering different things that they normally do not get to see what they may be craving. Sometimes the poop may be only partially digested, making it smell more enticing. Adding some yogurt may help with that. Good Luck to you both!!! Let me know what works!!! Re: next post: I think it's Papaya Enzymes __________________ Kat Chloe Lizzy PeekABooTinkerbell SapphireInfinity Last edited by kjc; 08-25-2009 at 05:42 PM.

08-25-2009, 05:38 PM	#6
jeanm1963 Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Weymouth, Ma Posts: 2,584	I think there was a post about using Caines Meat Tendorizer just a sprinkle on thier food. Perhaps someone will come along and say that the correct name but I do recall reading it. __________________ I Support http://www.yorkiesinc.com/

08-25-2009, 05:48 PM	#7
Dame Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Louisville, KY, USA Posts: 239	Buy some pineapple and see if she'll eat any. If so, it is supposed to help make the poop totally unpalatable. As long as she'll eat it, you just need to mix a little in with her food (around a teaspoon full.) Good luck!

08-25-2009, 05:55 PM	#8
Cindyloohoo Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Palm Coast ,FL United States Posts: 122	Coco totally does this. Ive tried what the vet said ( for bid) to sprinkle on her poo and that didn't work. I've tried pineapple. I even put tabasco on her poo and let her smell it. That worked for a little bit, but she still does this. It isn't all the time either. She will actually bark for me when she poos on her pad and if I don't come right out to clean it up (if i'm in another room) she gets quiet. Then I know she's freakin' eating it!!!! It drives me nuts so someone please find a cure. She eats good food too. Taste of the wild salmon.

08-25-2009, 05:55 PM	#9
SnugsColeman Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: TN, USA Posts: 141 Blog Entries: 2	Just Helping.... I know it is gross....my hubby just wrote about this las night and I got in trouble cause I fixed it for pink when he got up for a sec... in ways what we have read in books and saw on shows your pup is eating poop to help you clean up. He/she saw his birth mom do it when they were born and now they see and watch you. They said take them to another room when you clean it up. Also with the cottage cheese we add that to the diet but really does not help ( I am not saying it's wrong...just it did not help us) my mom tried the pineapple thing and her's and that worked for her. Also you can get tablets to place in food to make things...lets say not so nice for them later....I think I saw it a Petco. __________________ Small Fur Babies

08-25-2009, 05:59 PM	#11
redvalaria Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Raleigh, NC Posts: 153	I fed ALL of my dogs chunks of fresh pineapple. has to be fresh, and I don't mix it in, I give it like a treat. depending on size a few chunks a piece every day for like 10 days. Mine stopped by mid week. I kept it up just to reinforce it. Try it. __________________ -------------------------------- Kate-Mom to: Dante, Hamish & Fergus

08-25-2009, 06:04 PM	#12
Cindyloohoo Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Palm Coast ,FL United States Posts: 122	I used can pineapple so maybe that was the problem. I will try again. Coco is 5 lbs. How much do you think I should give her?

08-25-2009, 06:06 PM	#13
MizMaRLeysMoM86 Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Misawa AB, Japan Posts: 582	It's hard to get fresh pinapple here... I will see what I can do. __________________ *"No man can be condemed for owning a dog.* As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has."

08-25-2009, 06:07 PM	#14
yorkiemomma222 Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: California Posts: 100	Go figure, I have the same problem with Tinky For example, just about an hour ago, I left Tinky in her xpen for 30 minutes. I come back downstairs to see her poop eaten and chopped up into 5 little pieces. I had to wash her paws and brush her teeth. I tried feeding pineapple to her. It worked the first day and she stopped playing with it. But she went back to her bad habits. __________________ Tinky, my Who let the dogs out?