Poop Eater!

[kimalou]

Okay I have read some of the posts on poop eating so I have gotten a lot of good ideas on pineapple and so forth. My problem is that Daisy only eats her poop in her crate! We only crate her at night but when we wake up in the morning you can see smudges where she has pooped and ate it! I am switching her to Natural Balance and I am feeding her pineapple so I hope this helps. I guess my question is, do you think she is eating her poop bc she doesn't want it in her crate?

Also, she poops a lot! About 6 times a day and it is really wet and big! That is part of the reason I am switching her food. I have posted before about how fast she eats, she is currently on Purina Pro and I feed her 1/4 cup twice a day she is 4 mos old and weighs 5lbs. Any other suggestions?

[Wylie's Mom]

It could be the food you're feeding. In lower quality foods like Purina, dogs will poo-out some of the food undigested - so their poo actually still smells like food to them, making it appetizing. You might try switching to a higher quality, mid-range protein food.

You could also try Solid Gold's S.E.P. (stop eating poop), which you sprinkle on their food. This worked for my Wylie back when I was feeding kibble, and he was eating poop.