County I love how you’re able to offer helpful advice and then imply that all these posters are somehow mistreating their animals.
One of Ardred’s parents’ dogs eats the feces of all the other dogs (five total). She is in no way mistreated.
My dog rolls in fresh poop and then jumps on the bed. Fun.
I’ve managed curb our pups’ forays into the kitty crunchy jar by getting a hooded litterbox, and turning the opening toward the wall. There’s a gap big enough for the cats to ooze through, but not big enough for the dogs to shove their heads in. They’ll sometimes shove the box away from the wall and gorge themselves, but that takes care of the worst of the problem.
You might try putting Forbid in Kitty’s food next time she’s going to be at home with you guys for a while.
county: neurotic compulsion, my ass. Carnivores have pretty inefficient digestive systems, so there’s still lotsa nutrition in dog and especially cat poop. Dogs are scroungers; they’ll hunt if needed, but if there’s food right in front of them, they won’t bother. Some dogs, like my Dolly, are gluttons on top of that. That means they see a perfectly good and tasty source of nutrition laying in front of them, and by God they’re going to eat it, just like that cornbread you left laying out, and that entire jar of treats you forgot to put up, and the fish food, and your Godiva chocolate sampler.
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I’ve managed to train my dog to quit chasing the chickens, but no matter what I do I can’t get him to quit eating the chicken shit.:rolleyes:
You may not have to be a genius to tell chicken shit from chicken salad, but I guess you can’t be a dog…
Actualy my brother told me that story, and I don’t think it was original with him, but I like it
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If I really lived up to my screen nickname, well, I’d have some really disgusting fetishistic habits.
Beagles are evil. Say it with me, Beagles… Are… Evil! To wit, garden tub becomes litter box annex. Yes, we sacrificed our bathtub to prevent the dogs from eating the cat crap. Some day this will all make sense to me. Cats, fine. Dogs, fine. Dogs and cats living together, not fine! I’m sorry, it’s just unnatural.
It really is something half of all dogs do if given the opportunity. It’s nature. Nurture does not even enter the picture when a nice juicy cat turd enters…
Ugh! I can’t even joke about it. Too many horror stories. Someone give me a sharp stick for my eyes!
Mistreatment doesn’t enter into dogs eating poo of all varieties. Our Aussie, Princess, is the most spoiled farm dog in the world. She gets liverwurst, which is nasty enough in itself, as a treat every morning. She also will get the odd pieces of bacon, pizza crust, sugar cookie – basically anything she begs for. As a result, she’s rather fat, since she got kicked in the head twice this summer by cattle and is now afraid of all things that say moo. She’s a cowdog with a phobia of that which she must herd. She’s rather pathetic, but still enormously loveable, in all her quivering fuzzball fear.
That being said, she will go to all lengths to eat manure: calf, steer, full grown beast, it doesn’t matter. As long as it’s come out of the stinky end, she’ll eat it with great vigor. She seems to enjoy the yellow scours that calves get they’re sick the most. She also tries to eat her own fur when your groom her, as if we’re stealing it from her and she’s losing some valuable commodity.
She’s one weird dog, in total.
Sometimes, if the dog has been house-trained in a negative way, dogs will eat their own poo in order to hide the evidence. I don’t see that that would carry over to other house animals though, unless he thought he was doing the cat a favour.
“ROhhh nrooooo cat, rou’ve roooped inride, rron’t wrorry, I’ll take care of that rittle mess for rou, just ron’t ro it again!!”
This cracked me up! Thanks for a bright spot on a groan Monday morning. I’ll be giggling about this all day! 
There are doggie mints you can buy. But I think in this case you need Listerine and a doggie tooth brush.
On a much sicker note…
My dog Sam, being the sick bastard that he is, seems to enjoy my gf’s daughters bloody, used “rags”.
Apparently she wraps them in TP, puts them in a ziplock bag and disposes of them in her bathroom trashcan. We came home one day to a floor covered in ziplock bags with the corners chewed off and the contents gone.
He shit kotex for 3 days.
Bad dog!
Cat poop, horse poop, dirty underwear–all are delicacies for doggies. Mine are perfectly well-adjusted and were housebroken without issue. Yet they still love to dine on a lovely poop treat when available. Dogs just eat discusting things. Most dogs I’ve known will eat horse poop. When it’s frozen, horse poop must be especially tasty. We call the frozen turds “poopsicles.”
Breath chewies help, as does just keeping the poop out of reach. No amount of training could keep my gluttons from feasting from the cat box.
Word of warning: You do have to be careful with the horse poop. A friend of mine had a pony that recently had a minor episode of colic. To get the pony to poop, they gave him an inert oil. The pony promptly pooped–and my friend’s dog promptly ate the poop, with predictable results. Dog tummy plus inert oil equals lots of doggie diarrhea all over the place!
Fresh poop update:
I found out why yesterday. Or at least a very plausible explanation. This is a part of doggie-ness that we haven’t been able to out-breed (if that’s a word). Dogs roll in poop and eat it to hide their own natural smell, so they can sneak up on prey.
Evidently some dogs, for no appearant reason, are closer to their origin than others, hence poop eating.
Great thread, folks!
Am now off to lunch, but nearly wasn’t…
Our new kitty is disgustingly flatulent. Does that count?