how do you stop your dog eating dog muck?

http://www.petco.com/product/105448/Excel-Deter-Co...

Excel Deter Coprophagia Treatment Tablets

Safely discourages puppies and dogs from consuming their own feces

Effective habit-breaking formula

Tasty, chewable tablets

Ingredients: Brewers yeast, garlic, glycerin, magnesium stearate, stearic acid, thiamine hydrochloride.

The best means of stopping this behaviour is prevention. With close supervision and plenty of other stimulation, most dogs grow out of this habit. Keep your dog on the lead if need be, particularly in areas where you know there are lots of animal faeces around. Take special care to regularly clean up stools from the garden. Some say that this should be done out of site of your dog, so that it does not itself pick up a learned behaviour from watching you picking them up.

Ensure your dog is getting a balanced diet with all the correct vitamins and minerals. If you feed your dog once a day, consider spreading your dog's food across two or three meals if that is convenient. This may help reduce coprophagia if it is related to hunger problems.

If you catch your dog about to eat a stool, startle them with a loud "No" and call them over to you. Only do this if you catch them in the act, not a few seconds later. Praise your dog if they respond to your command. Although unlikely in well treated and confident dogs, care must be taken with disciplining this behaviour as some dogs may use coprophagia as a means of getting your attention, even if it is negative. Preventing your dog from eating stools for about a month or so usually breaks the habit.

There are two main reasons they did this. The first was for reasons of hygiene in the communal den. The adults would ingest the stools of their puppies in order to keep the cramped den area clean and remove odours that could attract predators. The second reason, although controversal, was for the nutritional value of stools which can contain vitamins B and K.

Part of the reason she may be doing this is because it must still smell and have a similar taste to her dog food. I saw a show a couple of weeks ago on TV about this type of issue. The expert there suggested feeding the dog pineapple chunks because later when the dog poops it won't taste good to the dog and the dog will stop. Good Luck

Grandfather began ranching in 1912 up the Goodnight Trail.

His views on dogs were short. He had them on-hand as a

gift for passing Native American Comanche who might eat

something worth money otherwise. Dogs also took on his

cookhouse leavings that not even the coyotes would touch.

Yes, he'd be grateful if they ate their dog muck too. "Who

better?!", the terrible old man would shout into your face.

His ideas on cure usually involved firearms. Go figure.

We had a dog exactly the same. I could never understand why he did this. To prevent this from happening I used to give her a swift smack and rub a bit of vick on her mouth. That did the trick. That was a quick result and soon stopped this terrible habit.

You might have to firmly shout/discourage your dog by eating. You should visit a Vet. Dogs would only do this if there is some deficency.

Keep her on her leash, my Lab is never let off unless in her own fenced yard, it's dangerous for your dog and in most places it's the law.

Keep her on the lead.

Scold her when she does it.

Sprinkle some tabasco sauce (hot sauce) on the poo, let her try and eat it, give her plenty of water.

Someone told me only yesterday that dogs eat faeces when they are deficient in iron. I would check with your vet about this.

Your dog should not be off of the leash........

Vitiam supplements........

Lite sprinkle of Cinnamon its food,,, if own.. yuk...

Firm NO,,,,,

don't let her eat it. just tell her no with a firm voice