Or perhaps our sense of smell isn’t good enough to appreciate the full bouquet and aromas of fresh poo. To us, it smells like shit - to them - it smells like bacon!
Walmart sells a similar brand with a formula closer to what my vet sold me once. The vet’s stuff was powdered and contained only monosodium glutamate and papain.
My parents’ dog used to eat her poop and someone suggested the cayenne treatment. Being a sensible chap I decided to do a little experiment and I gave her a corn chip with a large spoonful of cayenne powder on it.
She ate the hot pepper, drank a little water and then came over begging for more.
Rather than encourage poo eating and the smell of fiery hot crap breath we decided to avoid dousing her shit in pepper.
My Golden, Cooper, will see this simply as a condiment. He is an unrepentant poop eater who thinks the cats litter box is his own personal Almond Roca factory.
This is a timely thread. After thirty years of dog owning/breeding, I have my first Poop Eater. I think she mainly does it to hide it. (I’m forcing my gag reflex to relax as I type this. uurrrk.) I have her on Hill’s Science Diet (what she came with, as a pup) and her poop is so stinky that if she does poop in the house, you know it immediately, all over the house. And then…to eat…it…??? I’ve got to find a solution.
Our golden used to get carsick in the camper. Cleaning up dog vomit is bad enough, now imagine cleaning up a monster-sized puddle of regurgitated deer poop. I can still remember thinking initially, “Who fed him? He’s not supposed to have kibble before a trip! Wait… this isn’t kibble… AAAAAHHHH!”
I know a mostly delightful dachshund who is an unrepentant poop-eater; I joke about bringing her over to clean out my cat box for me. yancelebeef, my dog-groomer aunt refers to cat boxes as “Kitty Roca” for certain dogs. I know my parents’ lab has gotten into the box a couple of times as well and try not to think about it since he is my favorite dog in the universe.
I don’t let my dachshund friend lick me, though occasionally she catches me entirely off-guard and sneaks in a lick. Ewwww.