Know your battle. We live in a condo community, and everyone's dogs are "under 40 lbs" which pretty much means either people have one or more really little dogs or they're blatantly breaking the condo assn rules by having an 80 lb dog. Regardless, Stella always finds "big dog" poops on our walks because some people don't clean up after their dog (
). If I stop to talk to someone, if I'm on the phone during our walk, or if it's nighttime (I have to bring a flashlight now) I always have to watch her because she'll try to eat them. I don't know if she thinks the other little poops are hers because they're in her potty spot or what, but I still hate that she tries to eat them. I'll correct her and tell her to leave it, and she will, but she'll just find another one a few steps later. I think she may have even eaten her own icky at night sometimes when it's on her puppy pad, because I come out in the morning and it looks like she's either moved the icky from where it originally was or there's less than there should be (or both). All of that on our walks and she's not even interested in chasing the half dozen baby frogs hopping on the sidewalk in front of her. I don't get it.
