How do you get a 10 month old puppy to stop eating dog mess?
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Sprinkle some fennel seed on his food. Not sure how it works, but it did for my daughter's dog.
I had a dog that did this when he was a puppy. Our vet, who was a family friend, told me that it was one of two reasons why he did this. 1. He was lacking some vitamin (Idon't remember now which one), or 2. He was a poop eating dog! I laughed because I thought he was joking, but he said that a lot of dogs do this and they will outgrow it around 1 yr. old. So, if you try a lot of different methods that don't work, just remember that he will outgrow it!
Sprinkle some fennel seed on his food. Not sure how it works, but it did for my daughter's dog.
There are a couple of good articles on the Drs. Foster & Smith website regarding stool eating.
Why Do Dogs Eat Feces?
www.drsfostersmith.com/
Stool Eating: How Can I Break My Dog From This Nasty Habit?
www.drsfostersmith.com/
Hope this is helpful!
Kathy
Sprinkle meat tenderizer on the food. Most vets agree that this is NOT due to a nutritional deficiency. Do a search on coprophagia and dogs. This is usually a behavior developed from living in an unclean environment (even if that environment was some time ago), being punished for eliminating in the house or pure boredom and experimentation. The dog believes that the stool itself is the reason for being punished, not the act of eliminating in the house, so he tries to clean it up to prevent getting punished.
I used "DISTASTE" from Drs.Foster&Smith.com
Add the tablet to the food and within two weeks there was no more problem. I kept our pup on it for 3 months just to be sure. Great results
Our Westie did that. I got somthing called Deter from a pet store. Works great.
I also used DISTASTE for my lab/huskie mix who was eating out of my litter box--my husband calls them scooby snacks....ewww....
The DISTASTE worked great..no more litterbox snacking.
It just kills me that I had to give my dog something to make poop taste bad.
Is one product better than the other?
My 5 month old puppy WILL NOT stop
eating my other dogs poop- not to
mention her own. I feed them very
nutritious food!
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