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Originally Posted by Gigi485  Thanks so much for all your help - I really do appreciate you taking the time to give me all this useful information. We went to the vet yesterday and he thinks none of this stuff works and that dogs eat their poop out of a survival mechanism. He said that all dogs at one point were wild and to protect themselves and their pups from other predators they would "hide the evidence" so to speak and eat the feces to conceal their location. He said that dealing with it on a "dog psychology" level as Cesar does will bring more success than buying and trying different foods. He also said if the dog is assuming a pack leader role or feels insecure of his role in the pack he will do it to protect himself or his pack. It kinda makes sense and I'm going to try on work on my "pack leader" skills. He also said, most puppies just grow out of it. That said, I'm going to look into the food thing too.  |
I know I have put her on Royal Canine and she stopped eating the poop right away! Then I switched to Eukanuba and she started messing with it again but after a while she stopped as I always scold her for it. But when I started to go to college and she is all day on her own she started playing with the poop, also I have mixed in Purina baker's and that's the one she used to eat before and ate the poop (my husband bought it accidently when she run out of the royal canine) I just see it smudged all over the pad and sometimes on the kitchen floor in pieces I don't know how much of it she actually eats. The other day I came early and the poop was still there, so I am thinking she might not eat it straight away but because she maybe bored she amuses herself with her chocolate kisses. I have also heard about wolves eating their own poop so it may have a lot to do with their survival habits as well. I must say deter didn't work for us either, I think just changing to Royal Canine did but then I changed as she was more itchy after that so I tried Eukanuba. Now I am split on what to get her next.