Changing to raw will it help with Bracken's behaviour

[*Marie*]

Not sure if this is the right thread to put on, anyway, Bracken loves eating other dogs runny poo and it's getting more frequent, it's a long shot but I was thinking changing his diet to raw instead of his normal feed of Autarky puppy see if that makes a difference, but thought I'd write here first see if any of you had the same problem and changing over diets sorted the problem out?

[JeffD]

Teal would eat her own occasionally but has not done this recently since she has been on RAW but it may be that she has just grown out of it.

[maddy74]

Willow used to eat sheep, fox and rabbit poo but has grown out of it. Although now and then she will snaffle of odd rabbit dropping, maybe because it looks like her kibble 

[Joules]

I doubt if changing to a raw diet would stop a dog eating other dogs poo 

Coco used to be a nightmare for this (and her own poo )  In the end, the only thing that worked was to distract her with a treat and get her to leave it.  Eventually she grew out of it - now she just sticks to cat poo 

[Abbi]

Abbi is selective about what poo she eats. Some she sniffs and walks on and others she gobbles up before I can stop her. She was kibble fed and is now raw fed but neither has made any difference to her disgusting habit. She is now 4 so doubt she'll grow out of it.

[*Marie*]

So what your saying changing diets won't help! I was thinking tonight it's the common I use daily he does it, I have not notice this on any other walks we do! X

[bluegirl]

They say oe of the reasons they eat poo is because something is missing in their diet. If raw provides all your dogs nutrional requirements and presuming eating poo has not also turned into a habit it would seem logical to me that the cycle may be broken.

[jonnytrabant]

A simple solution to this would be to take Hume where there isn't an abundance of pooh. Obviously where you take him there is a lot poor owners of dogs who don't pick up there pooh

[piph]

Our GR girl used to eat her own and other dog's poo.  We tried the tablets that you can get from the pet shop but they didn't work.  She used to turn around and eat it as soon as she had produced it, so even cleaning it up immediately didn't help.  I spoke to the vet and she said that it was quite normal dog behaviour and only disgusting to us, but of course it made her breath smell terrible!  We never did manage to stop her.  I'm fairly sure that there is a thread on here somewhere that I read fairly recently that suggests using brewers yeast tablets in their food to make their poo unpalatable to them - but I'm not sure enough to recommend it - I suspect that the tablets we got from the pet shop were something similar.  We changed her food several times but it didn't make any difference, didn't try raw as I didn't know anything about raw feeding then, it hadn't become popular.