dog poo

[kiawelsh]

I have a nine month old German Shephard pup and have just recently noticed that she eats dog poo!! She gets two meals a day (biscuits mixed with meat) so it is not that it is a hunger thing. Can anyone give me any ideas as to how to get her to stop this.

[kita1]

Is it her own? Or other dogs?

Get to it before her and pick it up.

[kita1]

This deals with this problem
http://www.ttlntl.co.uk/3/BehAdv/coprophagia.h tm

[pmjblue]

It can mean a vitamin deficiency - what kind of biscuits and meat are you giving her. You may find this a strange one, but I have heard that tinned pineapple mixed with the dogs food will stop this behaviour.

[karen-marie]

hi try sprinkling dog poo with chilli powder pepper or mustard i did this with my old english sheepdog he stopped immediately

[thugulike]

A ring of tinned pineapple with each mean will do the trick. I had a mastiff who was copraphagic. Problem was that she wasn't fussy about whose poo she ate so my other dog also had to eat pineapple. When the female died the male wanted to carry on eating the pineapple and it became a regular part of his diet. Your dog may grow out of it but mine never did.