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My puppy eats poo. My 7 month puppy Billi is doing something really gross, she keeps eating her poo. She doesn't eat it all the time but we've seen her doing it twice this week. Does anyone know why she's doing this?:) |
EEEhhhhuuhhhhhhck!!! It is called "coprophagia" or something spelled closed to that !!! You can reaserch on this name and you will find many diferent explanations and solutions you may want to try.... mine did it for a while then stoped TG!!!! But i would read on it so you know what it is.... |
Bella who is 7 months eats poop too! She just started doing this a few weeks ago. No Bella kisses here! She likes the ones that are hard and crunchy.:eek: She's such a nasty butt. I think she does it just to gross me out! She's not happy though when I grab her and wash her mouth and teeth. |
I have 2 that do that. Roxie my 7 month old ate some today (my Poms) while I was out and now is sick and throwing up for the last 2 hours. I wish I could get them to stop. |
"Princess Poo Eater" Cricket is my poo eater here,, she is over 2 yrs old,, and regulary eat poo,, i've tried EVERYTHING,, Deter,, ForBid, DisTaste,, Pineapple,, she'll stop a while,, go after it awhile,, sometimes she'll want to fight ya for it!! GROSS Little Princess!!! today was a "wanna eat it day" ICKYPOO!!! good luck with yours,, our vet says it just one of those things,, his own mini schnauzer is a poo eater,,,but worse,, as his goes for "cat cookies" Really Gross!! lol i am home most all the time,, and our girls use potty pads,, and i know their normal elimanation times,, so i watch and quickly scoop it up!! i'll fuss at her, ,she KNOWS shes not SUPPOSED to eat it,, and won't when i tell her NO but she SURE wants to,,,,:animal-pa |
Many breeds of dogs do this but I think yorkies are top dog poop eaters. Maybe we should have a club here for this since we have so many other clubs. lol. I know it's gross but I've had yorkies for 20 years and so do it, some don't. I've tried every remedy known and never found one that was sucessful. Good Luck. Signed. YT poop eaters club organizer |
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hi, I had a Lhasa that did that too it's incurable,she also atewe cat poop if she could get at it gross! |
CAT POOP! The delicacy of all poop! Mine would get it if they could. We have rabbits that poop right outside of the fence and the babies run to get it and fight eachother to see who can stick their nose or front paws threw the fence toget the poop! why do we even bother buying the really expensive food when they want POOP!!!!!! That's like giving a kid an expensive gift and they want the box!:rolleyes: |
Hey, guys!!! Free treats in Bella's back yard!! Let's go:animal37 |
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Garrett picked up that nasty little habit too. Honestly I think he did it for attention though, cause the times he did it were say for instance I was sleeping and wouldn't play with him. Or if I went downstairs and left him alone. Sooooooo, after doing some research here on YT, I decided to try pineapple, so far so good, he hasn't "eaten" any poop since, HOWEVER, he did decorate the bathroom with it yesterday while I was taking a nap :( I think he may have figured out the purpose of the pineapple though, cause now when I give it to him, he barks at it before, during and after eating it :D Give it a try........... |
I heard that there are a few reasons why they do this..... 1. their moms did it 2. there food is not very good... ( not healthy) and there where a couple of other reasons I just forgot them...:rolleyes: |
lol! come on over! We have for your dinning pleasure; 1. Yorkie poop Comes in four exotic flavors; regular grass sticks and the special for the day is; whatever was on the rug 2. Cat poop Only by special request 3. Kitten poop Fresh batch every three hours 4. Bunny Poop for desert |
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Tessa eats poo too! Only she preferrs her big sisters' and it has to be fresh! So gross! Misty used to do it as a puppy but stopped when she was about a year old. I am hoping and praying that Tessa outgrows it!:rolleyes: |
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I once had a vet tell me they are missing something in their diet, and there is probably a fair amount of unabsorbed nutrients left in the poo. That is not to say that what you are feeding them currently is bad it is just that right now their bodies are craving something else, more carbs, more protein, less carbs, etc. So my recommendation is switch their food to something you normally do not feed, it will take about a week to see a change. We have done this with our Yorkie and with our Brittney Spaniels and it has always worked. And with our oldest Brittney who will be 11 this year there has only been 1 -2 times we have ever had to switch. If that does not work I don't know.. I will say it has only worked to stop them from eating their own poo, the cat poop is still a delicacy. |
Lilly does this too. She's almost a year old. It makes me sick to my stomach :( I've never had any of my Yorkies do this except for Lilly and Jersey and they both had rough starts early in life and I wonder if that has something to do with it. I haven't spoken to my vet yet as I thought she'd outgrow it but she's not :o Elaine |
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Do you have any recommendations on what kind of food would be better? They are currently on Iams meat, Iams dry puppy food and another dry food that is made just for adult Yorkies. ( I forget the name, but there is only one feed store here that carries it.) I also give them carrots and apples. |
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I am sure you have read lots of the threads on food and we too once used Iams and had all sorts of problems with our dogs (Brittney Spaniels) so you may want to switch away from all the IAMS food. We had one of our dogs on it for 10 years and her health got to be so poor that we actually talked about putting her down, then decided to switch food on a recommendation and doing just that has improved her health dramatically. We are so glad we did not put her down now!!! If you have not checked out dogfoodanalysis.com you should give it a look. Good Luck!! |
What's the pineapple thing some people mentioned?:confused: |
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Do you have any recommendations on what kind of food would be better? They are currently on Iams meat, Iams dry puppy food and another dry food that is made just for adult Yorkies. ( I forget the name, but there is only one feed store here that carries it.) I also give them carrots and apples. |
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