Please help...........My 7 1/2 month old GSD has just started eating our other dogs poo.......how do i stop him doing this & why has he just started.

LOL I heard its a common thing with GSD's - I've had to pull that stuff outta my boys mouth quite a few times n corrections don't seem to help unless I catch him sniffing at it to begin with.

The grossest thing I've encountered was my dog vomiting, n instead of food or anything coming out, it was 2 lil round balls of poop from another dog.

I haven't found a permanent solution to this, altho, he is doing better - I just need to keep an eye on him n catch him before he attempts to do it. I hate it when people don't pick up - especially when its MY LAWN.

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I understand that this is not uncommon, and that there are as many different explanations offered as there are dogs who have done it (from what I have heard and read, anyway).

You didn't give any background, such as what other changes in the dog's environment/schedule/activity/stress may have been concurrent. But there are web sites galore addressing this topic. "Google Answers," for example, returns a wealth of replies about the specific issue (which turns out to be called "coprophagy"), and the replies' sources are identified (so you can assess reliability, believability). They come from vet sites, book excerpts, blogs, general pet sites, and so on.

Here's the URL to get you started until dog owners who have had to deal with the problem weigh in.... http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=215211

All the dog-care sites address it, that I can see. I typed in "dogs eating other dogs' poop," and Google returned a big list of resources.

I hope this helps. People with direct experience will probably give you good, specific answers. This might be the only dog behavior issue I haven't faced yet! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Thankyou for your reply , never thought of
'changes at home' but it started after we'd been away for along weekend & the boys were kenneled....seperately but then they don't have free run of the house together anyway , also we've had visitors from the Uk so i hate to admit it but he probably hasn't received as much attention as usual............could this have contributed?
By the way the older dog is on a completely different diet .........

Thanks again.

Hi guys. Since we are on this discusting topic. Any way to prevent the dog from eatting goose poop? She goes swiming at the lake every day and it's now goose season it seems. Which amounts to, there's not a spot to sit without goose poop being close..lol so discusting. Is there a reason they eat this? lacking something in their diets maybe? Thanks

I used to work in a lrg teaching hospital that also had a veterinarian school. Needless to say I took my pets there. One of my dog's was a poop eater (PE) <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> which bothered me to no end. The vet at the school told me to sprinkle a bit of meat tenderizer on the food of the dog who's feces is being eaten. He said the meat tenderizer causes some enzyme changes which will make the feces repugnant to the "PE". It worked for me after I hit on the right amount of tenderizer. After a week or so I stopped using it and the "PE" never touched it again.

Im gonna give all my neighbors a bottle of meat tenderizer.

thankyou I'll try that , i also followed the links above ..very interesting.
Thanks again guys.