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Why do dogs eat dog poo?

Updated: 11/15/2022
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The reasons range from a vitamin deficiency to boredom or anxiety. The scientific name for this behavior is coprophagy. If your dog eats feces, be sure to report this to your vet. Even though it's very common, it's one of the behaviors associated with rabies, and there are health risks for stool-eating dogs. They can infect themselves with parasites, such as giardia, Filaroides, or coccidian. If the feces are around for two to three weeks or more, roundworms and whipworms may be present.You can stop your dog from eating it by adding pineapple to its food.

Sometimes pineapple works sometimes not. The best thing is to keep all doggy poo cleaned up so the dog doesn't get a chance to eat any. There are items available to feed to the other dogs to make the taste of the poo even worse than it is normally. Don't feed to the dog that eats the poo. Supposedly the dog eating poo will not like the "new" taste.

Dogs eat other animal's poo because they smell the animal's scent and they want their scent to be marked so they eat the poo to remove it from the area. If they eat the poo from their own yard, they don't want other dogs or animal's markings on their territory.

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because thay like it

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Dogs eat everything. Horse poo is available.

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Dogs eat their feces because they can smell the undigested food left over that still remains in the feces.

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Cause there geyboys!

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