poo eating

hi all,

i hope u can help me?

we have a staffi puppy nearly 6mths old and all he does is want to eat poo...
his,horse poo and anypoo he can get his teeth in to,
i know they can do this as its a puppy thing but he wont eat his food as he eating to much poo... i clean up after him in the garden and bag it but he has grabbed the bag outta my hand to eat it....
he also poo's and eats it straight after not even giving me a chance to clean it up....
i,v try'd changing foods good stuf to the cheper market and pineapple in his diet,
vets have said he should grow outta it but i,m tempted to try these anti-poo eating pill's?!
but do they work? please help?
i feel like i,m failing him and i,m a bad owner
thanks

aaw I do feel for you

Your not a bad owner or failing him, my puppy is 20 weeks on friday and he's into poo eating too. I have also try pineapple and didn't work either, just gave him the runs.

Basically other than trying stuff, perhaps try and teach him to leave it ?

What i do now is follow him where ever he goes and if he goes for a poo, soon as he's done it, I'm like leave leave in a firm voice, sometimes he will leave and sometime he doesn't, he goes in for a quick mouthful

I think it is just doing it over and over till it clicks in his brain.

Hope this helps

Btw welcome and hello from me and bruno

you will have to be more vilaent and et there before him also you could try bannana if the pinnaple isnt working .


ps can nyou go into your profile and set your avator to the correct size lol

Hi welcome to the forum, you will be pleased to know that poo eating is a common problem. Here's a link to another poo question you may pick up some info.
https://staffy-bull-terrier.niceboard.com/t1509-poo-eating?highlight=poo+eating
You are not a bad owner and you are not failing him, apparentley poo is quite the appetiser in dog circles....yuk. x

thanks all for replys

i,v never try'd banana so shall give that ago,

his a gawjus dog apart from his bloody poo eating! lol


ps hope avator right size now?

aaaw to right there he one hansome boy


and ha ha your avator perfect sizee

burties35 wrote:Hi welcome to the forum, you will be pleased to know that poo eating is a common problem. Here's a link to another poo question you may pick up some info.
https://staffy-bull-terrier.niceboard.com/t1509-poo-eating?highlight=poo+eating
You are not a bad owner and you are not failing him, apparentley poo is quite the appetiser in dog circles....yuk. x

You're definitely not a bad owner - if you were, you wouldn't be trying to find out how to stop him!

My Dempsey will eat cow/horse/sheep poo at the drop of a hat. The runnier the better with the cow dung. Double In fact all the dogs I've ever had have been partial to a bit of poo delicacy - a sort of canine nouveau cuisine!

Have a look through the link above & see if it helps. If not, just shout & we'll see if there's anything else you can do!

billy did this for a couple of months and now he has stopped, maybe just a phase

my little Milo was the same as your Ace but he's improved since we got him...heaps in fact but he's still on a few occasions eats his own, but really he's partial to any other animals' poo really apart from other dogs' poo....odd lol!! Puts a whole new perspective on the phrase 'dog shi.t breath' huh?!

I googled it and there is alot of info. there's even an unusual but official term for it

Zero has also done this since he was 8weeks (now 7mths) ive tried everything but he wont stop (never eats his own tho just Mazda's, the cats, horse etc poor Maz has to go in the garden alone cos she cant even go in peace hes THAT bad . one of the nurses that works at my mums vets has a gsd that wouldnt stop so got them tabs (copro-nil) and swears by them so i admit i might be trying them (think mum said they are about £18)

its called "coprohagia" (aka sh*te eating lol) dogs why do we have them

Staffiexxx wrote:
its called "coprohagia" (aka sh*te eating lol) dogs why do we have them

Lola still eats rabbit poo but she has learnt when I run after her and so no to stop, it's awful but I think they do eventually grow out of it, hopefully.

i seem to have the only dog that thinks poo is digusting to stand on never mind eat he dances round it daintily if he gets to close it's quite amusing

ella wrote:i seem to have the only dog that thinks poo is digusting to stand on never mind eat he dances round it daintily if he gets to close it's quite amusing

I can just imagine

ella wrote:i seem to have the only dog that thinks poo is digusting to stand on never mind eat he dances round it daintily if he gets to close it's quite amusing

quite a little lady

Well Jethro is 12 next month and he loves eating the chook poo if he gets the chance.... now I notice little Winston getting stuck into it to, if he gets the chance! Jethro has taught him well...

what a chook

I will start to panic when they lay an egg !!