Joined
·
103 Posts
A little background...
Ella has eaten poop since the day we got her at 3 months old. She was so bad at one time that she would start turning around before the poop was out of her butt. So these are the things we tried to break her habit...
-pills from petsmart to make the poop yucky
-adolphs meat tenderizer on her food
-pumpkin in her food
-switched food 3 different times
nothing worked so we turned to just always being out with her so we could pull her away and pick the poop up right away. She doesn't turn around instantly to eat it anymore but she still eats it and at the dog park she runs over to any dog she sees squating to see if there is some poop to eat.
We also have another basset now so there is more chances for her to eat poop if we can't grab the scooper and get there in time.
So my question...
Now that she is 1 you think it is worth trying the things above again to see if they work now? Or is once a poop eater always a poop eater? Any other suggestions for stopping poop eating?
I'm pretty tired of having to run over to poop whenever they go and the worst part is at the dog park if she is trying to eat a poop she gets possessive and will snap at other dogs if they come too close
She knows she isn't suppose to so if she sees me coming a lot of the time she picks it up and runs away so she can it! She is too tricky!!
Thanks Everyone!!
Ella has eaten poop since the day we got her at 3 months old. She was so bad at one time that she would start turning around before the poop was out of her butt. So these are the things we tried to break her habit...
-pills from petsmart to make the poop yucky
-adolphs meat tenderizer on her food
-pumpkin in her food
-switched food 3 different times
nothing worked so we turned to just always being out with her so we could pull her away and pick the poop up right away. She doesn't turn around instantly to eat it anymore but she still eats it and at the dog park she runs over to any dog she sees squating to see if there is some poop to eat.
We also have another basset now so there is more chances for her to eat poop if we can't grab the scooper and get there in time.
So my question...
Now that she is 1 you think it is worth trying the things above again to see if they work now? Or is once a poop eater always a poop eater? Any other suggestions for stopping poop eating?
I'm pretty tired of having to run over to poop whenever they go and the worst part is at the dog park if she is trying to eat a poop she gets possessive and will snap at other dogs if they come too close
Thanks Everyone!!