Dog eating poop!?

Its just what dogs do. Some like it, some don't. My dog specializes in rabbit droppings. Drives me crazy. They think it tastes like candy. Nothing you can do about it. Oh, you can try to put something noxious on the poop, but the cat would stop using the litter box. You could move the litter box where the dog can't get to it, which sounds like the easy answer, but I'd guess you've already tried that.

If you have a dog, you have the dogs "natural" instincts and habits too. Kind of like having a husband, only... well, you know.

I don't know anyone who has cats and dogs and doesn't have this problem. There are a variety of reasons why dogs do this, but they mostly boil down to just one - they are dogs.

Be diligent about scooping the litter box or get an automatic self-cleaning box or place the box someplace the dog can't get to (use a baby gate to keep the dog out of the room where the litter box is or install a pet door in the door to that room and keep the door closed). You can try a covered box but dedicated dogs (like mine) will stick their heads under the cover. I even tried facing the opening toward the wall and leaving just a few inches for the cats to get in to the box. My dog pushed the box over so she could squeeze her head in. I swear, it's like an addiction for some dogs!

sometimes dogs eat poop because they are hungry. they can eat poop even if youre feeding them what you think is enough food. so my question would be what type of food do you feed him? if you feed him any food sold at a grocery store than this is most likely a big part of the problem since those foods contain high amounts of by products and wheat gluten which arent filling or healthy for your dog. additionally, they are fillers which make your dog hungry faster than if you feed quality food twice a day. some good foods are royal canin (this is what i feed), canidae, avoderm, natures recipie, wellness, precise. theres lots of others but those are a handful i can think of off the top of my head.

If your dog food lacks key nutrients, he might eat poop. Your dog is trying to get "food" with nutrients any way possible, even from his own poop or cat poop in this instance.

also, my boyfriends parent's dog used to eat cat poop and they got these big dome litter boxes that the cat actually had to walk into and go around a corner to use. this prevented the dog from even attempting to get into the litter. so you might consider that or placing the box where he cant reach it!

It is part of their natural diet. Dogs are not really predators, but they are more scavengers. Like Hyenas, they will hunt but would rather find or steel already dead stuff.

Dogs begin to eat poop as a way to keep their dens clean and get nutrients. When they are pups and cannot leave the den both the mom and the pups will eat each others poop to keep the filth down. Sounds gross to us, but for a dog it is based in a natural survival instinct.

Dogs eat cats' poop because cats generally eat food with higher oil content, which means more flavor. It comes through in their feces.

Try getting a box with a "maze" like a Buddha or something similar so that the dog cannot get to it as easily.

Yum! Kitty Roca!!!

Cat food is very rich and cat's don't fully digest their food, so there are lots of good leftovers in their poop.

Keep the cat box somewhere where the dog can't get to it. When I had cats, I kept the box in a 1/2 bathroom, with a Cat Door in the bathroom door. You can also put it up high somewhere, or if you have a basement, put it in the basement and put a cat door in the basement door.

you should try the cat poop for yourself and see what taste's so good to him...

alot of dogs do this but mostly hunting hounds the only thing you are going to be able to do to stop it is clean the box as soon as the cat goes..

my dog thinks its a delicacy. my dog loves poop, only she likes to roll in it and eat it on the bed. she used to be very very bad about it. but she learned the hard way to stop eating poop on our bed. shes a good dog now.

i don't know, but my 5 year old beagle does the same thing with other dog poop in the yard, if i don't get it cleaned up fast enough. i wish i knew, though...cuz it drives me crazy when he does it!

Often times dogs will roll in poop as an inctinct, so that what they are hunting wont smell them. eating poop, although it sounds wierd has nutrition that benifits them. its wierd but its a built in instict that all dogs have.