 poop eating - continued
I was concerned to read the post that indicated there might be underlying disease causing a puppy to eat poop and saying it wasn't a normal behavior and that vets sometimes apply a bandaid. Hmm -- is that what my vet did? So I looked up the article referenced and found an additional paragraph that was not included - see below:
Sometimes a dog will eat their feces if there are undigested articles of food in their stool. Mothers with newborns will also commonly eat the feces of their newborns. As such, puppies may eat feces as an observation of the mother's behavior or as part of exploration. In addition, a dog may eat feces as a response to recent punishment, to get attention or because it desires to clean its environmental area.
So, your puppy and mine MAY have an underlying health issue or MAY be exploring - hard to tell. A vet's counsel would be wise anyway. As I mentioned in an earlier post, the 'bandaid' my vet offered seems to be working, suggesting that my pup falls into the 'explorer' category - hope yours does too, so as not to cause you a bunch of medical bills on top of everything else! |