On Wed, 24 May 2006 07:42:59 -0400, Janet B
<janet RemoveThis @bestfriendsdogobedience.com> wrote:
>On 23 May 2006 14:00:36 -0700, "showdogbark" <jotnaringin RemoveThis @yahoo.com>,
>clicked their heels and said:
>
>>I have had a dog that was a poop eater and it is very frustrating. I
>>suspect it had to do with her early lack of clean environment by the
>>man who bred the dogs for profit only and let them lie in their
>>excrement and only feed the mother and the pups wall mart food. So I
>>would suspect nutrition and dirty environment to be the cause.
>
>Perhaps for her, perhaps not. I can tell you that there are a lot of
>poop eating dogs who have had excellent breeding and rearing, so your
>generalization is incorrect.
It certainly is. Poop eating is not uncommon in racing greyhounds,
which unfortunately means it's not uncommon in ex-racers. Boredom is
probably the cause there, perhaps the fact that they're fed only once
a day on the track. While their diet isn't the best, the diet of the
poop-eating dogs currently residing in my house is excellent, so the
nutrition generalization doesn't work either. (I don't follow the
logic that dogs fed poor quality food will eat poop...I've seen some
truly malnourished dogs and they didn't eat poop.)
Mustang Sally
>> Stay informed about: She's a poop eater