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I caught my puppy eating his poop! :eek: :eek: I saw my puppy chewing on something in the yard. I assumed it was a leaf or something and when I went to pick him up, I realized it was his poop!!!! I cleaned all poop in the yard up after that (or so I thought). I guess I missed some because I just caught him doing it again! Is this normal and what should I do about it!? Also, my daughter was playing with him in the yard and he started humping her. He's only three months old and I plan on nueturing him at 6 months (the soonest the vet will do it). I heard this could just be a dominance thing so I flipped him over on his back, told him no and held him there until he stopped squirming (about ten min. ) and I said he could get up. I had my daughter participate too since she was the object of his, well, you know. Was that the right thing to do. Holy Cow I am freaking out about both of these. I need advice please:confused: |
My male eats his poop too! YUCK I KNOW! The vet told me it was lack of vitamins???? So they told me to get an organic treat that is full of vitamins I have been giving both puppies one a day and Diesel is still eating his poop I am anxious to hear any better solutions : ) |
There are lots of dogs-and lots of yorkies-that eat poop. There are several reasons they eat poop: -They could be missing something in their diet -The poop smells like their food to them, so they eat it again. This could be due to a low-quality food not being digested, or sometimes high quality foods have so much "good" stuff in them, that all of it doesn't get fully digested either. You may want to adjust food -They are trying to hide the poop from you My vet said this is not harmful to the dog-though it's REALLY gross to us. You can buy "Deter" Tablets at Petsmart, and give them to your dog-check the package for dosing. This has ingredients in it that make the poop "taste bad" (you'd think it already would :rolleyes: ). Once you can break the cycle, they may stop for a period of time. Sometimes puppies will simply outgrow it too. |
Good luck in getting this situation under control. |
My yorkie did that too when she was a puppy and I think that sometimes (very very rarley) she might still do it. She eats Canidae, she gets The Missing Link and she always has, so I don't think that it is lack of vitamins or any nutritional problems in her case. My vet said that some dogs just do it. I think in her case she just does not want it in the house because she doesn't eat it outside. When she does go on her puppy pad she will walk away, it is if I don't pick it up really soon that she will eat it. Sometimes she just carries it off and hides it. Anyway the only thing that made her stop doing it was Forbid powder. It really worked for her. I think that she might have done this 5 times in the past 6 months, and she used to do it all the time. |
Thanks guys. I will try the powder or pills. I'm glad to know there's something out there that I can at least try. I knew he had to go poop earlier by the way he was acting, but he would not do it! Finally, I crated him, came back about twenty min. later, his crate smelled like poop, but I could not find any:eek: So I'm pretty sure he ate it:eek: :eek: Anyway, I'm a little distressed because now I can't trust that he will hold it in a crate. I hope I can stop this soon. |
Yuck!yuck!yuck! My boy use to eat HIS poop but he did grow out of it only to grow into eating the cats poop,my girl's poop and the babies poop(YUCK!)He is feed chicken soup and given vitamins daily.some just like the way it tastes. |
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