Both my dogs like to eat kitty poop. We keep the litter box and cat food in the bathroom. The dogs know they are not allowed in there. Occasionally we figure they sneak in there when we are gone, but for the most part it’s a good arrangement.
A long-ago “dog haiku” I still remember:
The cat is not all
Bad—she dots the neighborhood
With Tootsie Rolls
My dogs enjoy both cat poop and deer poop. <blech> Since deer aren’t carnivores, I think they’re just eating it for the interesting flavor.
I have it on highest authority that they do it to gross out us humans.
According to Dave Barry, the standard MO for a dog is to immediately eat anything that’s on the floor because, if it turns out not to be food, you can always throw it up later.
Makes sense to me.
We had a Springer spaniel that would eat horse shit. Mind you, she ate more or less anything - including a big pot of linseed oil putty on one occasion, so might not be a typical example.
I’ve read somewhere that they do that to cover up their trails from predators. True or false?
jayjay-we did the same. Did you use a babygate too?
We didn’t have any baby gates available, so we used two plastic bins (we keep cat food in one and cat toys in the other) that stack up to about 3’ and are almost exactly as long as the doorway is wide. Daisy can’t jump over it (yet?) but the cats have no problem.
I call it the Buffet Box myself.
When our cat lays a real stinker, eventually you can smell it on the other end of the house.
About the time us humans start to smell it, you can see our nasty little dog perk up, sniffing the air, and then if we dont stop him, running for the fresh kitty treats.
I have three cats; I was thinking about getting a dog, but this thread has put me off that idea. :eek:
I have no intelligent GQ answer to add, merely the observation that my two dogs instantly dash for the kitty litter box each morning when they are let out of their crates, even though it must be obvious even to those dimwits that the humans in the house do not approve of this.
And yet there are Dopers who wonder why the majority of us think cats are superior.
If you get the cat dog ratio just right its a win win. You know, kinda like the circle of life 
A funny story. My grandmother used to have a dog that was crazy for that stuff.
When she would come to visit, you had to lock up the boxes like fort knox to keep the dog out. Of course we would often forget and munching at the Buffet insued. Or if the dog was let out in the back yard, she would go “digging for gold”. Our cats were indoor/outdoor.
Being a grandmother, she of course thought this was the absolute height of nastiness. She virtually never cussed.
She would always proclaim in a loud tone of disguist “Damn nasty cats!”
Which was doubly funny because it was a little old lady cussing about cats.
Secondly, uhhh, it wasnt the CATS that were being nasty.
OMG my side is hurting from laughing after reading this.
A childhood friend of mine had both horses and a Saint Bernard. The Saint Bernard used to snack on those yummy road apples as well.
Of course, one of the horses once came up to my friend and me as we sat outside playing Monopoly, stuck his nose into the box, and ate a mouthful of houses and hotels.
So maybe the dog was just trying to invest in some real estate 