Why Do Dogs Eat Their Own Poop: and how to STOP it! 

My dog burped in my face after eating poop and I nearly threw up.

I taught my dog to stop eating poop with one good sprinkle of cayenne pepper on his poop. He found out real quick that he doesn't like spicey poop snacks. He won't even go near it anymore. Oh and I took him to the vet and he is 100% healthy. Not a thing wrong with him. He just wanted to eat nasty poop. Well not anymore, thanks to Hot poop Delite!

From my experience my dog will eat its poop because I feel she’s afraid of me seeing it and being corrected.

This recently started happening it’s beyond disgusting

I had a dog and i got her at 2 years old and she did this so i just kept a close eye on her at toilet times and gave her plenty praise and rewards when she pooped and id pick it up straight away and over time it totally stopped. 👍🏼🐶❤

My dog eats all kinds of poop, but it especially loves cat poop. Then it comes in and pukes it out in the house. She's a yard dog now

Thanks for all the great information!

its been 4days and his playpen was still clean...i wonder why.... and then i saw it... O_O...thats not how you clean your playpen

My dog picked up eating it’s poop from me

That was excellently presented thank you

Thanks my dog was having this issue we are going to correct her now thanks a lot :).

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My dog doesn’t mess around. He eats it as soon as it hits the ground. I can’t get over there quick enough to beat him to it.

My dog poops when I’m not home (even if I’m out for just 30-40 mins And eats it I really dont know what’s causing his this behaviour Fed up!

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What about when you try to pick it up and the dog attacks you because it wants to eat it? The dog will eat it soon as it leaves her body, there is no chance to pick it up. She knows the command, leave it, but ignores the command in regards to poop.

Teaching my dog 3 commands: leave it, drop it, let go were the most beneficial commands I've ever taught him. When I'm on a walk with him he even avoids stepping into waste (because for him leave is leave, avoid, be as far as possible, so he started treating waste as radioactive). Recently he left some suspicious bone lying next to trash can when I said leave it (I hope it wasnt human) so it can be a life saver esp when it comes to poisoned food. And remember that for your dogs it's instinct they struggle with (it's been taking a while for my dog to avoid eating waste when he's alone without me so he sometimes mistakenly touches poop or digs and forgets himself - it frozen probably smells like food - and he then comes for cleaning (so he knows he did something wrong), but sometimes comes to me with clean nose and waits for being rewarded waving tail and touching me with muzzle). Recently I thought I would also smell his nose sniffing loudly (actually if he's alone he's wearing muzzle but I want to move away from that - since it's not a solution to the core problem) and either smile and cheer or silently give him a "soft unhappy mother growl" - but still be nice to him - depending on the situation - it somehow works). After all, they know what sniff means better than us, humans, so he started realizing that, at least I believe, because I see less waste on his nose recently. Muzzle is also good to have at night when neither you or your dog know what they're touching. Also, don't overreact, from time to time just observe if he leaves the waste and say nothing until of course not too late heh (but rewarding after that is very very good, I'd say more precious than rewarding for doing that after command because you're rewarding for unspoken thus reinforcing the good way of thinking). I even reward for picking but dropping on command (that's rewarding for progress and understanding). And yes, clean after your dog. Suppose he needs to do it 2 a day. it's 60 waste units a month. So do it even for yourself so you don't walk on a minefield. Neutralize watery waste at all cost because it's full of worm eggs active for years! Either dig it out and burn it or use toilet cleaner. The earth will be poisoned for shorter time if you use biodegradable cleaners (weeks, small area) than leave the infected waste (years, large area - reinfecting).

Thank you so much 👌😊

My dog literally did this today I was like wtf is going on 😂😂💀.

The “just clean it up” advice doesn’t really help for animals who are “just being helpful.” I found my doggy started eating poop when I began having trouble opening the poop bags. I have ALWAYS followed behind him and picked up the poo immediately. But a lot of times he poos and turns around to eat it right away before I can even get it. It’s especially hard when he poos in fall leaves and I can’t find it. The best way to find it is often to follow his nose. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Why do my dogs insist on pooping in the basement whenever they are in it? They'll poop outside or inside upstairs, if they "have to", but almost always go in the basement within a couple minutes of being their.

I laughed out loud when he said "nutritional"!

I have done deworming and giving calcium to my gsd still he eats his poop when he is alone he doesn't eat the poop when someone is there. Please reply Sir

My puppy eats everything she sees like coal, poo and even her vomit

I just learned that this is not a great idea to watch while eating breakfast

That's a good idea about picking it up thanks. I've been putting small electrodes in the stools so he gets a small shock when he goes to eat it. It works but quite expensive and laborious

My dog doesn't eat it. She just chews it like bubblegum and spits it out somewhere else.

wow! thank you for sharing these tips, my dog tomee has been doing this in our backuard, and his breath ends up stinking really bad and my daughter veeks has been complaining whenever she tongue kisses our dog.

Looked this up after knowing Cocoa ate his own poop after kissing my hands, wrists and legs owo

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My new golden pup, 3 mo old, did this as soon as she came home. The only thing that stops her from eating it is putting on hot sauce AFTER she poops- not super useful of course. Other than having her leashed, her knowing she gets a treat as soon as she poops keeps her from turning around and eating it like she did the first week. i have a routine set where she runs inside and sits by a treat jar for going poop outside, so I can quickly close the door after to prevent her from going back. The other thing is keeping her on a leash when I suspect she is going to poop! Annoying, but since dogs have a rhythm and most have signs they need to poop (opposed to pee), you can use apps or just simple paper and pen to track when your dogs eats, poops, and pees for a few days and you will be able to see a pattern. Then you are hopefully only leashing up twice a day for poops and the dog can be let out freely the rest of the time. Another thing that a lot of people don't seem to utilize is a CRATE. Crates, properly sized so it isn't too big, will prevent dogs from going unless they are sick. It is a great place to put the dog so they can't sneak off and poop somewhere in the house. It hasn't been mentioned, but putting down food only for 15 minutes so you can time when they are going to have to poop and leash them to prevent them from spinning around and eating it. Free feeding makes it very hard to know when your dog ate and therefore when they need to poop. I am still looking for what to add to my dogs' diet that will make her not like it so I can stop having to worry about it, but until then crating, timing, treats, and a leash are preventing her from eating poop. The only time she has tried was when I got sloppy and hadn't leashed her- once she starts eating, she won't respond to you calling so I had to physically remove her.

I like how he said it really doesn't harm your dog but if I walk in one more time from my lab throwing up all over the floor because he ate a belly full of dogshit we're gonna have some problems. Ugh it's so nasty 🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮

My dog has just started this at 2 years old. After a check up with our vet he said at times it's because of boredom. I don't understand this at all since I give my dog walks at least 3 times a day, we play in the yard several times a day and we also bring him to work with us - we are self employed and can either work from home or we also have a warehouse in town. We have 10 employees who talk with him throughout the day, occasionally play fetch in our warehouse and he has a doggie bed in our office both in the warehouse and at home. He even has a special spot on the couch at work. He gets doggie dates as well every couple weeks. I used to leave his poop in the yard picking it up after a day or two, counting them out to 2 or 3 poops a day but when I noticed him eating it one day I now go out with him each and every time, if I'm not right there he tries to eat it right after pooping! OMG. I try to divert his attention, asking him Where's your toy? or Treat! since my Vet said Do not yell at him, just divert him. After two weeks, this is not working so I may take him back to the vet to make sure it's not something medical.... sigh - Any other suggestions to whoever is watching that actually worked? I'm also giving him pumpkin with his meals. I read this may make his poop taste bad but he seems to like it just as much. Yikes.

I walk a dog whos nearly 15 yrs old. From when i started i noticed he would eat deer & kangaroo poo. Ive been wondering about that. Thanx :)

omg thank you he keeps eating it!!

How to stop poop eating: 5:28 - Let me know which strategy works for you! Check out my interview with Jason about the health risks of dog waste: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-f0f6f4npqMM.html

Kinda hard to go pick up their waste every time during freezing temperatures from Canada

My little puppy does this. Sometimes she does and sometimes she doesn’t.

hot sauce on the waste ahhahahahah funny loved it

I had a Border Collie Aussie mix that began to eat cat poop eagerly when he was about 2 yrs old. There was plenty of it outside due to farm cats and strays .He would get sick every time and barf it up inside my house. It was soooo nasty! My solution was watch him like a hawk and catch him in the act, then chase him down and beat his a$$. It worked, after several caught in the act events over a few months. He finally stopped and never did it again for the rest of his life. He lived to be 12yrs old and was actually a very smart and well behaved boy, aside from the poop eating! 😝

What about pumpkin? Also he pooped in his food bowl today!!! I don't know what is going on with him. I think he is upset when I go to work but my husband is home with him most of the time....

Leader dog: I’m top dawg I will eat your waste Member Dog: Go right ahead

How do I get my dog to stop riollubg and eating it?

But thank you.

We got a very bad free dog offline...he was so bad he's gotten much better, but he still eats his poop, and it grosses me out. I believe he used to get in trouble for pooping in the home...he used to have accidents in house, but he also had worms really bad when we first got him..he also cowers down like someone has hit him.....I got him at 6 months, it didn't take them people long to mess that poor dog up.

My issue is that my puppy is a toy size chihuahua and while it’s very easy to clean up during the day, at night he is kenneled and sometimes has a bowel movement and that’s when he eats his poop!!

My Siberian husky started doing this how do I stop it

I have two 5 month old corgis. I have my routine where I wake up and I need to use the bathroom first thing in the morning. My bladder knows I’m up so it’s time to go. I can’t help it. Sometimes I just hold it in hoping that the girls poop before I go do my morning routine so I can just clean it up and won’t have to worry about them eating it. But they literally wait for the moment where I step outside my room to poop! And then eat it! Sure I can wake up and walk them, but I’m not leaving my apartment without brushing my teeth at least. I feel like I should at least be able to do that without them pooping and eating it. I don’t see why they would be scared to poop in front of me because when they do something wrong, I ignore them and clean it up. Not even punish them. . . Anyways Im feeling kind of helpless and don’t know what to do. I’ve had a dog before and never had this problem.

Our 5 month old did it when we got her and we got her to stop for a month or 2. She would hunt for rabbit 💩 in the yard sometimes after tho. She just started back this week but it seems she only does it if she has to go out but no one is paying attention to let her out. So it’s like she is trying to hide the evidence. She only eats it right after she does it when she does.

I never seen my dog actually eat her poop but her breath is SO BAD ALL THE TIME like poop it’s terrible and she doesn’t let me brush her teeth and I’ve used the meat tenderizer before but idk if it worked yet

My dog goes in the garden and finds fox poop and eats it

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My 5mnth old German Shepard puppy keeps bringing us his poop if he sneaks off into the kitchen does one and brings it back into the living room where we are and places it down on the carpet why is this? Does he think he’s bringing us a present?

So if I clean the place he thinks he should help me and the only way he knows is eating the poo! And the thing I can do to stop it is clean it after he poo! I didn't get it !

I do get his just clean it up point, especially if your doing the hot sauce thing, but I let my dog into the front garden, as I live in Ireland and we have walls all around the front and backyard, close the gates and let him do his business while I make some tea at the window so I can see him, I see him pooping, put a teabag into my cup, look back up and he’s eating the shit he’s just had, but not the one he had last night, and it’s such an irregular occurrence and he tried eating the same cat poop, just after being disciplined for the first one, so I brought him in and he went on time out, but there is so many different random reasons that I’m just more confused now

so they teach you to how to stop your dogs from eating poop even though its completely normal for then to do this?

Basically his advice is clear up after the dog. Don’t let him eat it. Yes we know that but what if your dog spins round so fast that he gets to it before you? And why is my dog only eating it at home? When we’re out he ignores it completely.

And its hard to go walking with my dogs

AND hes 2months old

My puppy is doing this and shes fast at it! - Ive been to the vets lots with her due to vaginitis... We couldn't get rid of it.. turns out she's eating hers and licking herself.... not fun! - very stressful.

I have a new 2.1/2 months olde english bulldog puppy. I always clean after her but at night, she sleeps on her crate with the door open to a dog play pen where I leave a couple pee pads. She usually poops twice at night and its hard to wake up every so often to take her out in the mid of the night. Through the camera I've caught that she is eating her poop. I've increased her food thinking that she could be underfed despite using a bit more of the recommended by the food company for her age/weight. Just bought the meat tenderizer now. I'm trying to find out what else I could do.

My dog likes to eat fox poo on walks or in the garden, what would be the best way to stop her doing this other than the "leave it" command? Shes a rescue from Macedonia and hardly knows her name yet!

My dog did this yesterday

I live in an area in the UK where responsible dog owners are a rarity!...it's on the pavements we have to walk on...every single day!...she often sees it first and gulps down a wadge of it before I can do anything!...she understands 'drop' with everything else and will happily take a treat as a reward but she Refuses to drop poo...even if I had a whole bag of treats in my hand her attention is on the poo only...I've tried to fish it out of her mouth, or even just hold her jaws open while demanding she drop it!!. Nothing works and I come home feeling exasperated after a walk when I just want it to be enjoyable time together

My old dog Duke who died used to do it and we had to put him on medication for it. I noticed that my new dog Astro his breath was really stinking. I had his teeth cleaned and the very next day it starting stinking even worst. I just caught him eating his own poop like a couple minutes ago

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My 14 week old corgi puppy eats his poop and then throws up sometimes. I clean up after him very often but overnight he will go in his crate. Which food do you recommend for his nutrition?

Big issue for labradors

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My dog started random, I yelled at her, and spanked her because I kept almost vomiting, and I have 3 dogs, they eat the same stuff, only one eats her poop, my pooper scooper is in my shed and I can’t get it, and I can’t clean it. Thanks

My pup will not stop eating her poop at all idk what it is

I’m so fed up with my dog being so obsessed with her waste. When i see her running towards it i try to pick her up or block her from going there but the more i want to stop her the more she gets passionate about eating that poop and she will literally do ANYTHING to get there. We try to clean it up asap but sometimes we don’t and the waste would be there for hours and she wouldn’t look at it but then all of sudden she gets interested in eating it idk why. -___-

well the big problem is when you get suprised with a poop on the road or in the field. and suddenly he starts to eat it.

I a, here today to say my dog ate it’s poop today and I screamed

This is why I don't want pets

My baby brother had a massive dump and it spilled a little, when i was done cleaning him up i was going to clean the spill, when i came back just moments after i saw my dog licking the horrivle spill with its tongue, after that it hid under my family bed

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My puppy stated

And if it does it just when you are not around ?

Thanks for this!! came here coz I just found out that chimmy is eating his own poo ughh!!!

Well it’s 2:32am and I Just came back from taking my dog for a walk and She ate poop Ik very disgusted-

My dog ate her poop and now we neglected her and I feel bad because she just wants love but we are kind off disgusted and now Im sad because I know she can change but I dont know how pls help

it is literally impossible to pick up all crap when my puppy poops. I pick up right away when i can but i am at work most of the day so i cant be with him 100% of the time. The MSG didn’t work. i will try tobacco or cayenne pepper like others mentioned

My dog was not eating poop and than he saw one street dog eating poop . And now he started mimicking it

Well my dog just now eat human poop what do I do. Do I Make a poop it out or puke it aut

The only problem with running out there and clean it up real quick is you’re not teaching them not to do it but hot sauce may make them not want to do it that’s what I’m saying

my sister has two dogs and one ov them is a labrador puppy, the puppy was eating the poop will the other dog was shitting it and it was the most disgusting thing iv ever seen

Good tips but I’d never add meat tenderiser to the food. It’s terrible for their stomachs.

I clean my puppy waste up as soon as he does it yet today he turned around and grabbed it and swallowed it before I could get it away.

I was watching this video whil looking in the yard and seeing my 2 puppies eatin their poop

Is there any medicine to stop dogs eating their own waste

My 11 month old Germansheperd female eats our other mix breed dog poo I always wanderd why but after hearing him say might be trying to show whos boss i think thats what it is shes been trying to push her weight n tall ness around she towers over the other

But what if the dog poops in the night

We got our dog pumpkin flavored treats from Wegmans (Wegmans Nature Natural Dog Treats, crunchy pumpkin flavor) and since we started giving her these treats she seems like she is not finding her poop as appetizing as before, I also call her right after she poops and she comes to get a treat. I have a serious back problem so I cannot easily bend over to pick up the dog waste which is left outside in our yard so I have to wait for someone else to do it when they come home at night after work. I only pick up the dog poop if she does it in the house. She used to eat it right off the floor if I didn't catch her in time.

my dog eats his poop and he was 5 months old

I got my bully at 5 weeks. She gave my bigger dog worms, she’s now 16 weeks and won’t stop eating poop. It’s like she has a taste for it

The second guy needs to invest in a tripod.

Oh yeah well when they get into extreme ages and still do this idk I think that's what caused w\e it is my dog lil yorkie barker had done that a lot before they ended up i guess having a mini stroke or something cuz they got severe vertigo ever since that day and the last thing that they ate before that moment was they own poo so I'm like idk if it's safe as we think there are many reasons we don't do this i imagine it could cause issues if we did anyway so how do i get my new dog to stop(i wasn't going to even get a new dog n just be with my 3 cats well we had 2 dogs them 1 died now last of the small ones is on his last leg poor things gonna go any day now sadly but he's like 26 maybe 27yr old in ppl time so like 100s in dog years and we just gotta new 2yr old German Shepard who u know how they steal ur heart but she's very well trained and behave so it isn't as hard just larger much were trying to socialize them with the cats i guess that'll take at least a month lol. But if we never do it then they'll never get along so gotta rip the band aid off

Maybe dogs are cleaner than we thought and don't like poop that's not getting picked up. Could be a hint. Maybe they are aware that bad things come from stepping in their old poop . . . . . . harmful micro organisms and parasites such as worms and other "not friendly" strangers.

Stressed 😫