photo credit: zimpenfish
Seriously, Carlos, why does your dog insist on eating her poop?
-Krystal
Well, ever since I moved into the new house she has been eating a lot of grass. A very large quantity of grass, like she’s a cow. She even looks like a cow, frankly. Supposedly dogs eat grass when they have some variety of stomach issue.
It isn’t like she doesn’t eat enough. She eats dog food, several ounces of paper, as much string as she can find, occasional balls of fluff, leaves, grass, and this afternoon I caught her licking the cabinets in the bathroom. So I don’t think she is hungry.
She is pretty sneaky and will actually pretend that she is eating grass until she gets right next to a poo. Then, suddenly, she strikes (like some coprophagic jungle cat).
At first I thought she was trying to clean up after herself, but now I clean the backyard every couple of days, so that probably isn’t it. I am left with one of two conclusions: either she likes the taste OR she is dumb.
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I think she likes the taste of poo AND she is dumb. This is what I think goes through her head “Ooo… look what I made! I gonna eats it!” Your crazy little dog takes great pride in doing things that are not only wrong, but downright repulsive. We’ll just call her “special.”
Maybe she is afraid that if she doesn’t get to it first Shilo will. She is pretty competitive.
Well MY dog does not eat poo… So she is either competing against herself, or living on the hope that Shilo will one day be interested in a poo eating competition. Again, let’s just call her “special.”
I am of the opinion that pups think poo tastes DELICIOUS
I mean, they don’t only eat their own, you know? and unless they were all,secretly, put here to self maintain their excrement levels, I’m thinking this is strictly a recreational activity
well maybe dog shit IS delicious.