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Warta.Matt

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Since: May 19, 2006
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 10:16 pm
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I have a puppy. She is a five month old Austrailian Shepherd. She is
a poop eater. This is an obviously disgusting habit, but I understand
it is not entirely uncommon. I took care of this problem about 3
months ago, or so I thought. I put some hot sauce on her poop, and
when shye went to eat it, she did not enjoy the taste one bit. After
that, she wouldn't go near the stuff... till the last week or so. I
started puting hot sauce on it again, but apparently she figured out
that little trick, and only ate the poop unaffected by said hot sauce.
I figure I could just pick the stuff up, but tonight, she made it
obvious that that would be innefective. You see, we put her in a crate
when we leave, Well, she obviously pooped in her crate and ate it. I
know this, because not 15 minutes ago, she thrice puked up the most
vile smelling brown substance imaginable, I mean, it ranked right up
there with shad sides. And I do mean ranked. I need to get this
animal off of the poop. Can anyone please help me?

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Warta.Matt

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 1:31 pm
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Crate is already that size, so that is out. I can regulate the
behaviour outside by cleaning up or simply being out there. She does
not spend long periods (well longer than 4 hours) in her crate at a
strech. Although I would perfer not to have her in there at all, her
behavour (ie chewing and housetraing problems) disallows me to leave
her free reign of the house when away. If we are going to be gone
longer, we take her to doggie day care. Any of this change anything?

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 2:00 pm
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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.
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Janet B

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 7:42 am
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On 23 May 2006 14:00:36 -0700, "showdogbark" <jotnaringin.TakeThisOut@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.

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(Msg. 5) Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 9:35 am
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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.)

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(Msg. 6) Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 8:16 pm
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"Janet B" <janet.DeleteThis@bestfriendsdogobedience.com> wrote in message
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> 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.

IMO poop-eating in dogs is an instinctive behavior that they, oh, misapply.
Or do at inappropriate times.

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