nasty habit

[dizzymare]

Welll Ellie is now 12 weeks old, and is still hit and miss with house training.  Most of the time, she prefers to go in the house, even if she has been in the garden playing for a long time.  Often this is on newspaper, but sometimes not.  Howver, my main concern is that if I dont get there quickly enough to clean up the mess, she will actually eat it.  Sometimes this happens while I am fetching kitchen roll.  It happens in the garden too so its not just an indoor thing.

By the way, this site is great.  I'm new to all this and find it so helpful, so thankx everyone!

[ladylola]

I think you will find this is quite a common problem. Some cockers just love to eat poo. Horse poo, rabbit poo, fox poo and their own. You just have to be quicker than them. Sasha still does it sometimes and she is 2.

[magicflower]

Ruby went through a phase of doing this when she was a puppy. Yuck! 

We always tried to distract her as soon as she had performed and clear it up asap.  I was told that giving pineapple was a way to stop them eating their own pooh. 

Luckily she just seemed to outgrow the habit and hasn't done it for a ages.

Mind you, she's still partial to a bit of horse or cow pooh when were out walking! Bless!  Often she rolls in it too!

[dizzymare]

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Mind you, she's still partial to a bit of horse or cow pooh when were out walking! Bless!  Often she rolls in it too!

Cant wait for that bit!  well, it helps to know that it's a common problem.  I was worried she would make herself ill.  Hopefully, she will grow out of it too.

thanx guys.

[Vivienne]

We call rabbit pooh maltesers

[Joules]

Yep, Coco was a  for eating her own poo and any other type she could find.    She is a bit more choosy now and usually only eats horse, sheep or rabbit.    I used to have to be very quick to pick up before she ate her own    I used to say a firm 'No' and distract her with a very tasty treat! 

Just ignore anyone who says it is not normal puppy/dog behaviour - it is just not talked about in polite company    Luckily we love talking about poo on here and I have learned most dogs do it at some time and to some degree! 

[juliaanne]

As far as I know Roxy has never eaten her own poo - but is more than partial to sheep poo!!  But the worst has got to be fox poo both for eating and rolling in it.  Aren't they adorable??

[cazza]

Fern  has never eaten her poo thankfully

Braan on the other hand has just started this  I tell him to leave and he does  and I get there fast with the poo scoop and pick it up 


I'm not even gonna say anything about jock  (he will not leave it at all  )

[GailyK81]

Hi & Welcome to COL.  Yeah Shadow tried his own poo once but but a firm no no and distraction did the trick.  Horse Poo however is a different story he goes deaf and even gets exited when we approach the horses field.  We now have to put him on his lead 5 minutes prior to the field so he can not enter.  Not only eating it but he happiy rolled and jumped in it too.

[dizzymare]

Reassuring to know I'm not alone.  Another week on and she's still doing it.  I'm obviously much too slow.  I tend to clean up with kitchen roll cos I can just flush this down the loo.  However, we now have a battle with her trying to get the kitchen roll out of my hands as I'm trying to pick it up - I won't say what the end result of that was, but I didnt smell too good after     I tend to see the funny side now (I must look a sight especially when I've come from work - chasing her round the garden in my high heeled boots with a bits of kitchen roll spread over the garden  ) but I'm sure it will get better

[ladylola]

  Sorry shouldn't laugh.

[GailyK81]

  I tend to clean up with kitchen roll cos I can just flush this down the loo. 

Now why did I not think of that insted of trapsing down to the dog poo bin each time.

[dizzymare]

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do you have one of those eco ones that you sink into the ground? i was thinking of one of those for when she's bigger.  do you find it useful? (and does it smell? 

[Aearoniel]

You can't flush dog waste down the toilet. Sewage works cannot deal with the micro organisms in it which cause diseases such as Salmonellosis, Cryptosporidiosis and Campylobacteriosis. We had this happen in Herts and it was in the local paper where the counci were advising people to do it and Thames Water had to get them to withdraw the DVD which advised it. It's important to dispose of dog waste properly for these reasons in dog waste bins.

[debbie321]

You can't flush dog waste down the toilet. Sewage works cannot deal with the micro organisms in it which cause diseases such as Salmonellosis, Cryptosporidiosis and Campylobacteriosis. We had this happen in Herts and it was in the local paper where the counci were advising people to do it and Thames Water had to get them to withdraw the DVD which advised it. It's important to dispose of dog waste properly for these reasons in dog waste bins.

Oops!  Ben is now 2 1/2 and I always pick up the garden poohs with loo paper and flush them down the loo    My other ways of dealing with poo is to pick it up in a nappy bag and leave it in a doggy bin, or leave it to decompose if in the forest. 

Is dog poo really more dangerous than human poo?  I can only remember that a dog bite is far less harmfull than a human bite as we are full of nasty bacteria