How do you stop a dog from eating poop? Not only its own, but others. Any
help is kindly appreciated.

"Courtney" wrote in message
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How do you stop a dog from eating poop? Not only its own, but others.
Any help is kindly appreciated.

IME, that's a toughie. Might help to understand that this is how the momma
dog cleans up her puppies before they're weaned. So you're trying to quell
a natural instinct.

Clean up poop frequently, so it isn't there to eat. Try drenching poop with
hot pepper stuff, chili powder. Supervise your dog carefully, and say "No!"
when he tries.

There are some substances to feed to dogs that are supposed to make the poop
less appealing; I've never tried them.

flick 100785

"Courtney" said in
rec.pets.dogs.behavior:

How do you stop a dog from eating poop? Not only its own,
but others. Any help is kindly appreciated.

There are plenty of methods which work with some dogs, but the
only guaranteed method is avoidance. In your yard, pick up
right away; on walks, use a leash or have a good recall or
"leave it."

--
--Matt. Rocky's a Dog.

According to Dr. Raymond Coppinger, all dogs are scavengers, and all
over the world,
village dogs have hung around village dumps and latrines consumming
garbage
and turds. He figures dogs are not direct decendants of wolves, not
created
by neolithic man raiding wolf dens and artificailly selecting for
tameness, but by
a natural selection co-incident with villages and dumps, a niche filled
by the creation
of this energy source. Breeds came about after illness wiped out all
but a new founding pair,
thus Northern breeds became larger and hairier, while Southern breeds
smaller, less hair.
There are sitll many places in the world where "village dogs" exist,
and people say they own them,
but they are more like trees on their lot, not cared for, named, fed,
or allowed inside.

Food for thought, and a much better explanation for copography
than imitating Momma cleaning up the den. You'd think with noses all
powerful, this
would never happen, but it is more common than you'd ever imagine, but
it's just so disgusting,
nobody talks about it.

As for additives, Drs.Foster & Smith sell a product called "Distaste"
which only works
on their own turds, does nothing for those of 'others'. You'll need a
"LEAVE IT" command
to avoid the temptation, however you accomplish that task.

Good Luck with that, as nothing is so disgusting than this!

Tried the pills and stuff that are out, but doesn't work. Telling them no
just makes them eat faster. Plus, they, one male and 2 females, no puppies
from them. The biggest problem that I have with it, besides being gross, is
that they will come in later and throw it up and it is soooo gross, worse
then fresh pileof poop! The dogs are all at a different home, from the same
litter, all with family. They don't seem to care about the hot stuff
either, they just go to the water quicker and throw it up quicker. Thank
you for the help


"flick" wrote in message
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"Courtney" wrote in message
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How do you stop a dog from eating poop? Not only its own, but others.
Any help is kindly appreciated.

IME, that's a toughie. Might help to understand that this is how the
momma dog cleans up her puppies before they're weaned. So you're trying
to quell a natural instinct.

Clean up poop frequently, so it isn't there to eat. Try drenching poop
with hot pepper stuff, chili powder. Supervise your dog carefully, and
say "No!" when he tries.

There are some substances to feed to dogs that are supposed to make the
poop less appealing; I've never tried them.

flick 100785

wrote:
HOWEDY Courtney,

Courtney wrote:
How do you stop a dog from eating poop?

ALL behaviors are the same same, Courtney:


Dear AssHowe,

I understand that you are AFRAID to take my challenge, I will modify it
so it's easier for you.

Instead of competing with my dogs (as you obviously know you will
lose), I have several good friends at rescue homes and the Humane
Society that have agreed to let me borrow several untrained dogs - tiny
to huge. I've already arranged it and they agreed.

Now, all you have to do is train them NEARLY INSTANTLY (as you claim
you can) - which means less than a minute - to do a checklist of a
variety of activities.

Since you claim you can train dogs nearly instantly, this should be no
problem at all for you.

Just let me know when you can drive the simple 3 hours down here to
Boca...and again - I'll pay gas, lodging and food.

How about that???

wrote:
HOWEDY matty you miserable lying dog abusing punk
thug coward active acute chronic long term incurable
mental case,

Rocky wrote:
"Courtney" said in
rec.pets.dogs.behavior:

How do you stop a dog from eating poop? Not only its own,
but others. Any help is kindly appreciated.

There are plenty of methods which work with some dogs,

CITE WON PLEASE, matty?

Dear AssHowe,

I understand that you are AFRAID to take my challenge, I will modify it
so it's easier for you.

Instead of competing with my dogs (as you obviously know you will
lose), I have several good friends at rescue homes and the Humane
Society that have agreed to let me borrow several untrained dogs - tiny
to huge. I've already arranged it and they agreed.

Now, all you have to do is train them NEARLY INSTANTLY (as you claim
you can) - which means less than a minute - to do a checklist of a
variety of activities.

Since you claim you can train dogs nearly instantly, this should be no
problem at all for you.

Just let me know when you can drive the simple 3 hours down here to
Boca...and again - I'll pay gas, lodging and food.

How about that???